Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest percentage increase in the taxes of people with small and moderate incomes (see box). And most of the new tax burden had to be borne by people of moderate means. For all but a meager 10⅓% of the nation's aggregate income goes to people who earn $15,000 or less. And the taxes of the rich are already high-43% on a $100,000 income, 72% on a $1,000,000 income...
Through College assistance, on the average over 1,000 Harvard students a year ordinarily find term-time and summer employment, and in good years earn between $200,000 and $300,000 to help finance their schooling...
While students have applied for a wide variety of jobs, most of them at present are seeking work which will earn room or board or both, Duhig said. For room, the students tend furnaces, cut lawns, wash windows, and do other chores taking an hour a day; for board they wash dishes or wait on table...
Alvin York is an irreverent young buck who punctuates his grinding labors on a rocky farm with spells of boozy hell-raising and gunplay. Love of Gracie sets him hankering for a farm of his own. His painful efforts to earn enough money to buy the land end in his being diddled out of both land and money...
...prospective warrior wants to be an officer he must graduate from a Gymnasium (secondary school) ; if he wants to be more than a major, he must have an engineering degree from a Technological Institute; if he wants to be a general, he must earn a doctor's degree in engineering-the hardest to get now in Germany...