Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sales are the highest in history, neither hard work nor Tory free enterprise have been enough to free the island from its precarious economic geography. Britain depends for its life on the terms of world trade-on the relative amount of food and raw materials that it can earn from other nations by selling its manufactures and skills...
...labor union executive, 38, who had learned enough from his job and his reading to earn course credits. Among the subjects he passed: Introduction to American Government, Composition I and II, U.S. Literature since 1800, Economics 1 and Economics 21.2 (trade unionism and industrial relations...
Residents of Penticton (pop. 14,000) grow fruit to earn their living, but they live for hockey. On road trips the team is ferried by volunteer drivers in private cars; a women's auxiliary washes the players' jerseys and darns their socks. During the playoffs for the Canadian championship last May, when an elderly lady collapsed of a heart attack, she surprised no one with her last words: "Go see who scored that goal!" The entire team attended her funeral...
Grays will meet Hollis for the freshman intramural basketball championship at 8:30 tonight in the I.A.B. Last night Grays defeated Wigglesworth East, 47 to 37, to win the second half title and earn the right to meet first, half champion Hollis...
...were quickly provided. Another time, he told about the hard time a family was having after the breadwinner was sent to prison for stealing a factory payroll. Reading "Cincinnatus," the factory owner called the holdup man's wife, hired her at $20 a week, and told her to earn it by staying home to care for her children...