Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite this situation, the student holding a scholarship is supported in a state little short of luxury, forced to earn only $300 a summer, and take either a $300 job or loan during the academic year. When other deserving students are forced to earn or borrow their entire upkeep, it seems the College can ill-afford such generosity. While raising the amount of work and loans required of scholarship students would undoubtedly hurt their economic and intellectual status, the harm done would hardly be comparable to the benefits given the Group V or VI student who could receive at least...
...college graduates usually earn substantially more than non-graduates, scholarship holders should also almost feel morally obligated to repay part of the money they were given for their education," Harris added...
Many a Jewish doctor, lawyer or teacher seeking refuge in Palestine from the venom of Hitler's Europe was forced to earn his living by manual labor. This humbling necessity for common survival led in the new nation of Israel to a basic belief that no man was better than another, and hence should be paid no more. In the Israeli economy, teachers, doctors, civil servants and other professionally trained men were all paid workmen's wages. Any attempt to raise the scale for professionals is promptly met by an equal demand on the part of organized labor...
...MINIMUM WAGE of $1 hourly will put an extra $560 million yearly into the pay envelopes of 2,000,000 workers after it goes into effect this week. But the new law will hit Southern industry hard: of the South's 780,000 textile workers, 34% earn less than $1 hourly; of its 400,000 furniture workers and lumbermen, 67% are paid less than the new minimum. Some prices will go up to cover the higher wage costs, and some marginal operators may be forced out of business...
...army regulations themselves, taking advantage of the machine's very unwieldiness, he sets out to make fools of the men who run his life. Through devices that any old soldier can only admire, he gets his noncoms and even his captain into so much regulation trouble that they earn the contempt of the battery commander. Gunner Asch wins his corporal's stripes and shows up the simple-mindedness of the goose-steppers. But by a superb irony, he is the final loser; through the simple expedient of throwing all the Asch-inspired reports into the waste basket...