Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Romains is highly adequate to his great task: his adequacies hang on the walls of his work like so many diplomas. The only question is whether adequacy is enough. An undertaking of such grandeur as this requires something that no amount of intelligence, intention and industry can combine to earn: a corresponding grandeur of treatment which French genius, specializing in minor perfections, has rarely if ever produced...
...this week it was clear which way the wind sock was pointing. If Panagra is to keep her foothold in Ecuador, earn the right to buy out Sedta's operating permit, she (and Washington) must throw as much money into Ecuador's winds as Adolf Hitler...
Only a half-hour in reaching its decision, the Court gave special mention to the trial work of Geismer, who was Attorney for the Respondent, the Steel Mill. An exceptional brief by the Scott Club, written by six others besides Richardson and McMillen, helped to earn them a unanimous decision...
...work with, however. The size of the squad that reports to him daily is tremendous, and includes: Jim Bennett, all-League forward for the past two years, Ken Jolly, regular guard last year, and Charlie Jack, who played enough in the early part of the 1939-40 season to earn his letter. These three, along with Howie Dunbar who has only recently reported, are the few returning lettermen...
...half-year course, and Ec 1, open only to candidates for Honors. While 2a is too dull to be controversial, Ec 1 is a sprightly study in confusion. Discussion is lively and disorderly; agricultural tractors are freely converted into printing presses; and everybody catches on just in time to earn the expected A or B. Anchored only to the graphs on the blackboard, Ec 1 floats freely in the realm of abstractions. If, as must be supposed, the course was intended to furnish a solid theoretical basis for the study of applied economics, it can only be regarded...