Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate of Yale in 1929, Griswold had an undergraduate career guaranteed to earn the respect of the most extra-curricular minded Yale man. He was noted as the class wit; condemned Phi Beta Kappa for luring muscularly competent men form athletics and making "nifties" of them; was acting chairman and later managing editor of the Yale Record; wrote a column for the Yale Daily News; and was a member of the Elizabethan Club, the Pundits, Psi Upsilon, and Wolf's Head, a secret society...
...being kind to horses, sad-faced Willie will earn about $75,000 this year. Some 70% of those earnings (after taxes) go into a trust fund, to be held there until Willie comes of age. Meanwhile, he is sending his 18-year-old brother to college, supporting his bride of four months in a Los Angeles motel, playing a few rounds of golf (low gos) in the mornings, and driving a new Buick. Records were all right, Willie figured, but nothing to lose sleep over...
Robert W. Day '53, of Adams House, feared that there would be a caste distinction between those who earn their room rent by serving as porters and those who are fortunate enough not to have to work. "It might not be a very democratic practice," he said...
Reynolds is now devoting special attention to the system currently in an experimental basis at M.I.T., where needy Tech students can earn their room rent by assuming the duties performed at Harvard by maids...
...what succeeds is good and he had been careful, as a Marxist, to say that capitalism had been good in the days when it succeeded. Failure, like poverty, had always been the Shavian crime. The only failure he seems to have been proud of was his own failure to earn more than ?6 by novels and casual writing before he was 40. To the hostile, Shaw's trotting to Moscow and his defense of tyrants seemed a mixture of cynicism, contemptible prudence, and an old mountebank's determination to keep in the limelight; a degeneration from the noble...