Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seth C. Crocker '41, acting chairman, said yesterday that one plan provides for the replacement of 55 waitresses, one-half the number now employed in the Houses, by 100 students. They would earn their board by working in the dining balls on alternate days...
...Schafer could probably do better for the Crimson in the 220, but it is questionable if Jaako will want to risk using him in three events. Running the sprint might prevent him from making a top try in the high and low hurdles where it is hoped he will earn some points...
Some people will go to ridiculous extremes to earn five cents. However, probably no greater number of people ever carried on such an awesome variety of odd, yes, very odd jobs as are in progress here at Vassar for our own Seventy-fifth. Even men are rented for the good of the cause...
Some 40 years ago, a young cub reporter on the New York Sun decided to become a doctor. To earn his tuition at Long Island College of Medicine, he wrote baseball stories for a boys' magazine. So popular were his tales that the editor offered him $5,000 a year to leave medical school. Fortunately for Science. Fred Tilney wanted to be a professor. He graduated with honors, studied neurology in Germany, went back to teach in Columbia. Later, he wrote 111 books and articles on the evolution of the brain, encephalitis, a score of other subjects, reorganized single...
...Curtiss-Wright common stockholders the main advantages are the $37,000,000 of new capital from Atlas, the hope that this can be put to work to earn a return handsome enough for expansion plus dividends, and a straightened-out capital structure. To holders of Atlas' 3,000,000-odd shares of common (year-end net asset value: $12.80), it means trading $5 per share of their asset value for 65/100 share of Curtiss-Wright Common having a market value of over $6.75 ($10.50 a full share), and the remaining $7.80 per share of their asset value...