Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barkley, 66, as the poor tobacco farmer's son who rose to represent them in Washington longer (31 years) than any other man. He was born in a log cabin deep in the backwoods of western Kentucky, where "one-sucker" tobacco (black, heavy-leaf) is the crop. To earn his way into Georgia's tiny Emory College, he rode through the hills on a black horse, peddling kitchen utensils from the saddlebag; at the University of Virginia Law School he janitored and waited table. His first law job was in the office of Paducah's Judge...
...Britain's Field Marshal and India's Viceroy, Lord Wavell, a soldier of generally unsuspected spirit and eloquence, wrote in his forthcoming book about poetry (Other Men's Flowers): "It is a law of life which has yet to be broken that a nation can only earn the right to live soft by being prepared to die hard in defense of its living. . . . May the spirit of adventure and self-sacrifice . . . stay with us after the war, when we undertake ... to refashion a shattered world...
...dividing the university community. This would supplement the recent Chicago reform whereby faculty contracts will be gradually rewritten 1) to command every professor's full time for eleven months a year at an improved salary, 2) to pour into the University's coffers whatever money facultymen earn from lecturing, broadcasting, publishing outside the University. But Hutchins will let a Nobel Prizewinner keep his swag; he regards that (sometimes as much as $46,000) as "unearned income." > Hutchins announced the election to a University Vice-Presidency of Wilbur Cheney Munnecke, who for four years has held a similar title...
...State Department's recently stiffened opinion, the Villarroel regime still has to earn recognition...
...time his parents took him to Europe in 1937, Ernie wanted to be rid of his deformity, even if it did earn his living...