Word: earned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complaint. Third and fourth stops were a casualty reception depot and another police station, both closed for the day. In little black books the aides entered the names of all delinquent officials for immediate dismissal. Back to the palace went King Carol, feeling he had done something to earn his night's repose...
...college for four years, for the college cannot educate us. A man must self educate himself. A school or college may drill facts into a student's mind, but what good will that do? All education is self education, and a man must come to college prepared to earn this education. It cannot be given...
...Hearstpapers last week) Mr. Lloyd George accused the Times of "garbling"' his eight-year-old words. Said he: "After I called your attention to these perversions of the truth, instead of apologizing like gentlemen for your oversight, you indulged in spite-silly sneers at my efforts to earn a living from journalism. Not even inveterate personal rancor, of which you have given innumerable proofs, can justify such methods. "You always refer with the curled lip of assumed superiority to the Hirst [sic] press, edited as it is by Mr. Brisbane, one of the most brilliant publicists in the world...
...train character. But character is an activity, not a state it is how a man acts, not how he is taught to act. Business is even more trench practical. If pays a man not for having capabilities but for exercising them. Until he exercises his ability he does not earn an income and can only be paid one out of kindness...
...hence these laws cannot be subject to any human decrees or to any contrary pact even of the spouses themselves." Toward the end, Pius XI urged: ". . . That in the State such economic and social methods should be set up as will enable every head of a family to earn as much as according to his station in life is necessary for himself, his wife, and for the rearing of his children, for 'the laborer is worthy of his hire...