Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aware that students cannot manage their own finances and that their figures are likely to be purely mathematical figments. Consequently, the office pays virtually no attention to the student's estimate, assuming that he can live on an arbitrarily determined budget and that through work or loans he can earn $650 towards this budget. The office is interested in the more meticulous, if no more scrupulous, parent, whose financial condition varies from year to year...
Although the Crimson Tide of Alabama has ebbed to its lowest point in history on the football field (10 games, 10 losses in 1955), the university is still generous enough with its "grants in aid" to athletes to earn 1) a frown from the Southeastern Conference and 2) the services of more than 100 young men of brawn and promise. In return for the free education it gives them, most of the Alabama football, basketball and baseball players live a life apart in their own dormitory. Friedman Hall, and are regulated stiffly as to bedtime and weekend privileges, allowed little...
Freud did not divine it. But he penetrated so deeply and so disturbingly into its dark recesses as to earn permanent membership in that small fraternity of men who, by thought alone, have shaken and shaped man's image of himself...
...neurology. In the end it was no mission to relieve suffering humanity that took him out of the lab into practice as an M.D., but a combination of romance and economics. At 25 he fell in love with Martha Bernays. To marry and raise a family, he had to earn a living instead of continuing to live off his aged, impoverished father and on loans. So Freud plunged into the practice of neurology, and then, after four years of penny-pinching and passionate correspondence with his fiancee, he married...
Another sophomore, Alan Steinert, will play at seven on the strength of his final round 74. This score placed him just above Dave Beadie, George Leness, and letterman Jim Bailey, any of whom could earn a position later in the season...