Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of men in the top group is relatively low compared to lusher years in which over 100 were able to earn an excellent rating. The figures are not too disproportionate, however, considering that the present membership of the Club is about 20 under that...
...squeeze the natives out of "Native Reserves" into the gold and diamond mines became the first order of business for all South Africa's "bosses," from Rhodes to Smuts. First a hut tax was imposed which forced the impecunious natives to earn white man's money. Later came a head tax of 20 shillings a year. Squads of police cruised nightly through urban "locations" (segregated residential quarters), routing all Negroes without poll-tax receipts. The penalty: jail, cuts with a thin bamboo cane-or a job in the mines. By 1938 the rural Europeans, who form...
...When he ran three years ago in a $1,500 claiming race, Stymie sank about as low as bigtime race horses can sink. Last week, by galloping home in the Gallant Fox Handicap at Jamaica, Long Island, Stymie became the second horse in history to earn more than a half-million dollars...
...long-hovering wage dispute (TIME, Feb. 4) included demands for 29.1% more pay to handle T.W.A.'s fast, four-motored Skymasters and Constellations. Among the union's golden boys (senior pilots now earn around $10,000 yearly) the raises would spell real money...
Then Jackson added a portentous postscript to the judgment: ". . . Germany is not the only country whose governing party has practiced this method [mass persecution of minorities, bloody suppression of all opposition] of maintaining itself. Opposition ... to existing regimes today will earn the same fate in much of eastern Europe as it did in Germany. . . . There is great need that the statesmen pick up where the lawyers leave off at Nürnberg...