Word: earned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What white man could have impressed those worshipful Indians enough to earn their deification? Dr. Walter Hough, the Museum's head curator of anthropology, decided that the god was redoubtable William Paterson...
...Hilton was still puffing from his exertions in preventing three merry youths at the dance from pouring punch down the bass horn. They're good, spirited lads I used to get that way myself once," he murmured sadly. "These winter dances are hard work for as waiters: we sure earn our pay. For instance, inside of ten minutes tonight I had to run down cellar and turn off a carbon dioxide gas spigot they had opened; stop a young man who was running about with a candle on a silver serving tray asking loudly for an honest woman said...
...least five years British art dealers have awaited the honors lists with one question uppermost: Would Sir Joseph Duveen, Britain's best known art dealer, finally get his peerage? Sir Joseph, head factor of the firm of Duveen Bros, of Paris, London & New York, has done much to earn himself the honor. He has been lavish with gifts to the British Museum and the Tate Gallery. When young British artists accused him of unfriendliness to modern art Sir Joseph, one of the world's great traffickers in antiquities, handsomely turned the other cheek by purchasing the works...
...could sell all he could write -perhaps 100,000 words a month-at 3? a word, is now lucky to sell one story a month at 1?. Among headliners, incomes of $10,000 to $20,000 a year were not uncommon three years ago. Few today can earn $5,000. For the rank & file of writers the figure is less than half that...
...name and its proponents styled themselves Technocrats Headquartered at Columbia University they announced that, employing three dozen unemployed engineers, architects and draftsmen, they were conducting an "Energy Survey of North America." Startling was their array of statements about technological unemployment, mankind's machines destroying mankind's chance to earn a living "under the present price system." As preliminary fireworks they expounded such statistics as these...