Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total of 1,652 was good enough to earn the first cash prize ($5,100) and a diamond medal (value $600). It was something Swede Carlson had waited for since he was second-best in the Petersen Classic, 21 years...
...hoped to return "in about a year," meantime dwelt in Manhattan with handsome, Greek-born Wife Atalanta (the former Countess Atalanta Mercati), Son Michael John, Daughter Venetia. Now 50 and quite grey (but with wavy and slickly groomed hair), Glitterateur Arlen was trying to grow a stomach to earn the children's respect. Said he: "In my house everyone goes around nude ... so everyone peers at me, looking for the corporation. But it's not there...
...president, ruddy and reserved Gwilym Alexander Price, 50, works almost as smoothly. A poor boy in Canonsburg, Pa., he clerked in a Pittsburgh law office to earn his way through the University of Pittsburgh law school. Then he went to work in 1923 as a trust officer for the Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust Co. Steadily, quietly, he rose to the presidency...
...year-old A.L.P.A. is the world's most gilded and exclusive union. Its members earn salaries like $9,000 (pilot on a domestic run) and $12,000 (senior pilot on a transatlantic schedule). Most of them shudder at the thought of taking in other airline employes such as mechanics or clerks. But they have their own airtight method of enforcing a closed shop...
Also for men cager to earn their A.B. in as little time as possible is the committee which evaluates careers in the service in terms of course credits up to as high as four full courses, or even more in the case of those who have taken ASTP programs at other colleges...