Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month-old girl, Charlie Trippi is almost as good at baseball as football. He has had offers from the Braves, Yankees, Phillies, Athletics and Red Sox, and a $17,500 pro football bid. Charlie hopes next year to play both games professionally (he prefers baseball) and earn $50,000 a year...
...added, "We are going to have to earn back these losses before we can do many things we would like to do-things like retirement plans and plans for more stabilized employment"-and expansion. One of the things shelved, along with the new, cheaper Ford, was the $50,000,000 research and engineering laboratory...
Even when his Chouans and La Peau de Chagrin made him an outstanding figure in French literature, he continued-like a married woman secretly visiting a maison de rendezvous to earn some pin-money-to frequent his former low haunts and degrade the famous Honoré de Balzac to the status of a cheap hack. . . ." In fact, Zweig does a better job of explaining the hack in Balzac than he does in explaining his greatness...
Since most of these students held scholarships, they must make much-better-than-average grades and, at the same time, work for board. Were these same students so fortunate as to attend Rindge Tech, they could earn the equivalent in twelve hours--and have eight more to devote to their all-important studies...
...University, and certainly unnecessary if the same work merits the same pay. The present practice makes lower wages the penalty of having to work to stay in college. This is singularly unjust treatment of a group of students most of whom have demonstrated by their willingness to earn their way a real desire to attend Harvard...