Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey is being sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association which is spending 60 percent of the income members colleges earn from T. V. in order to carry through the research project...
CAREER: California-born (1902) and Texas-bred; graduate of Texas' military-minded Agricultural & Mechanical College, where he helped earn his way by peddling candy in dormitories, played trumpet in the school band; in 1923, he entered the Army Air Service, worked up the peacetime ladder; on the eve of Pearl Harbor, he was deputy chief of staff, Sixth Air Force at Albrook Field, Panama Canal Zone...
...principals recognizable human beings who, despite some obvious dialogue and a few unnecessary twists of a sensational plot, stay consistently within their well-drawn characterizations. The cop is a sharp little study in malcontent, cupidity and vulgar taste; his fondest ambition is to own a motel so he can earn money even while he sleeps. Yet he is also a man in love and nagged by some decent urges. Actor Heflin fills the character to the last nuance. The woman, ably played by Actress Keyes, is a pathetic, guilt-ridden dupe who craves nothing more than a normal home life...
Tower of Strength Beneath a hot Virginia sun one day last week, Defense Secretary George Catlett Marshall stepped to the front of the speakers' platform to receive a tribute it had taken him 50 years to earn. Virginia Military Institute had turned out in full regalia to do him honor as its most famous living alumnus...
...main purpose is to give young men who show promise economic security," says Professor C. Crane Brinton '19, chairman of the Society "so that they are not required to be section men or bluebook readers to earn the money for their research...