Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...venom-charged atmosphere the prisoners themselves seemed the least concerned. Towering, monocled Colonel General Eberhard von Mackensen stared impassively at his judges. Wax-faced Lieut. General Kurt Maeltzer, wartime Roman governor, sat beside him, hunched and bewildered. Between sessions he went to earn cigarets by building a playpen for a British guard's baby...
Temporary Duty. The German scientists are listed as "civilian employes of the U.S. War Department, European Theater, On temporary duty in the U.S." They earn a small daily wage ($2-$11), which is paid to their dependents in Germany. In addition, they get the regular $6 per diem allowance for detached duty...
Under Miss Tanner "the girls' Eton" was more interested in career-mindedness than muscle. The headmistress thought that "every woman should earn her place in the world, and should be able to give back in some measure all the world gives her." She encouraged Roedean girls to go on to a university (one in eight does, a high average in England), was pleased that many of the present crop planned professional careers-in medicine, law, music, art. By current-events classes, Miss Tanner tried to make the 367 girls conscious of the world outside, not long ago held special...
...College administration has been for some time open to criticism on the basis of wages paid to students employed by the University. An unmarried veteran working at the lowest wage rate would have to put in 25 hours a week in order to earn enough barely to keep his head above water, assuming that he had no source of income other than his job and his monthly allotment. Veterans with dependents would have to work even longer hours. A married student or one who cannot get by with less than average time for study just cannot afford to work that...
Swift Chip Gannon will be the key operative among next year's veterans. Only a Freshman this fall, Gannon nevertheless managed to earn himself plenty of fame around the Ivy circuit. At his wingback post he will always be a long-gain threat and at the same time a back who can be counted on to drive with all the muscle in him for the essential two yards. Chip's work against both ground and aerial attacks has been commendable, and his passing will remain a threat--and a constantly increasing one--especially on his optional end run-pass. Behind...