Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are still the same chatty introductions to records, interviews with musicians and singers, and such features as all-request shows, "Past-Year Favorites" and "Stars of Tomorrow." Block has not yet captured a single sponsor for his network program but when he does, ABC promises that he "can earn over $3,000,000 in the course of the contract...
...cheapening by inflation of every dollar you earn, every savings account and insurance policy you own, and every pension payment you receive has been halted...
...Rockefeller program is a giant step for the Louisville Orchestra-from five major performances and 20 school programs a year to a year-round operation. Musicians who were earning up to $1,000 a season will now earn up to $3,500 for their orchestra work alone. Since many of them take their parts home to study, they will earn every penny...
Mary Cassatt's closest male friend was also her master, Edgar Degas. If she never equaled that dour misogynist as an artist, she came close enough to earn a place as the best woman painter America has produced. A rich, aristocratic Pennsylvanian, she spent almost all her adult life laboring at her profession in Paris. Though she hobnobbed with the impressionists, the tall spinster never painted a landscape. People offered more of a challenge, she felt. Cassatt was an austere sort alto gether; she once turned John Singer Sargent from her door because he had done such a "dreadful...
...West Germany must earn the West's trust and confidence by demonstrating that its lesson has been learned in the two disastrous German adventures of the 20th century...