Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grandma's childhood was brief. "When twelve years of age," she recalls, "I left home to earn my own living as what then was called a hired girl. This was a grand education for me, in cooking, house keeping, in moralizing and mingling with the outside world." After 15 years of this education she met and married a farmhand named Thomas Salmon Moses. She remembers, with the certainty of true love, that he was "a wonderful man, much better than...
...back at work. But Kovach appealed his dismissal to the National Labor Relations Board, arguing that under the Taft-Hartley Act it was unfair for the company to fire him to enforce any union rule unrelated to the payment of union dues. Said he: "I work my 40 hours, earn my pay. What I do with my money is my own business." Last week the NLRB agreed with Kovach, cited both union and Studebaker for an unfair labor practice...
Dick Wharton won the 600-yard run without much effort, tied for second in the high jump, and led off the victorious mile relay team to earn 7 1/4 points. Jim Cairns led the field home in the 1000-yard run and ran the third leg on the mile relay. Jim Polese placed second in both the 50-yard dash and the 45-yard high hurdles. In the 35-lb, weight, Pete Harpel met little opposition and won handily...
There are some TIME agents who earn as much as $800 to $1,000 a year, depending upon the size of the school and how hard they work. Says Roger Chapin of Middlebury College: "The hunting rifle and shotgun hanging on the wall in my room, the skis in the corner, the camera in my desk drawer and a canoe are all byproducts of TIME sales." When summer vacation at the University of Minnesota began last year, says our subscription agent Merrill Cragun, "I bought a convertible and took my first jaunt to the East Coast as a result...
...When he was 24, Ozzie drew a competitive satisfaction from the fact that he was already making more money than a Supreme Court Justice. Last week some rapid pencil work by Ozzie revealed that he had been outdistanced by his teen-age sons: David and Ricky now each earn more money than is paid the President...