Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill McAllister at three, however, has a powerful, albeit somewhat erratic, game. Making a comeback from last season, when he failed to earn a letter after winning one the year before, he posted several fine rounds at Pinehurst, including...
...expedition to the Antarctic in December, Sir Edmund Hillary, beekeeper and co-conqueror of Mount Everest, spread the word that he has a vacancy for one newshawk in his party. But the billet has some apron strings attached to it. The extraordinary newshawk he wants will first have to earn a diploma from the New Zealand army's School of Cooking and Bakery-and then be man enough to slave through long polar days and nights over both a hot typewriter and a hot stove...
Through war and depression unions looked on the time study men with cold suspicion, believed them to be company spies trying to force the "speedup" (requiring a worker to produce more to earn the same pay) or the "stretchout" (putting a worker in charge of more machines). More often than not the "expert" lacked both technical training and knowledge of the job he judged, and even today some companies ask for trouble by using untrained white-collar workers to make time studies. Not until World War II did unions take the first steps toward cooperation with management on the problem...
...they were curious, especially concerning the standard of living in the West. Such questions as these were frequently asked Malia: "What is it like to live there?"; "Are your automobiles better than ours?"; "What does an average worker earn?"; "What can you buy with what the average worker gets?" Even taxi drivers were curious. Many asked about the traffic in the United States, and whether there was more of it than in Russia. Most of them, Malia says, knew there was more in America...
...regard to other all-star contests, especially those in which charity benefits, such as the East-West basketball game. Overemphasis on a sport results from a particular team being built up and heralded across the nation, but the influence of an individual star is transitory. Such Ivy athletes as earn invitations to these all-star contests have demonstrated their ability in a limited sphere of competition, and deserve the opportunity to show their skill against the nation's best. Neither the University nor the Ivy League will suffer from such a change in policy, and it ought to be made...