Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speedboat-loving playboy who came to the throne after his father's death three weeks ago. During the election campaign, the Afro-Shirazis hinted that if the African party won, his reign might be short. The worried Seyyid Jamshid was said to be ready to abdicate and earn a living running a motorboat service for tourists. With his allies of the Arab Nationalist Party still in control, the Sultan was spared that grim necessity. But the country at large is wondering what will happen between the two feuding factions when the British troops pull out. To preserve the peace...
Jesus & Janizaries. A bulb lighted up in his epic brain. Movies filmed in Spain could earn fluid money for their backers elsewhere in the world. Appealing to several American corporations that had plenty of cold pesetas, he said he wanted to film the story of John Paul Jones...
...industrial arts. Twice acting president, he guided five Antioch presidents in more than doubling enrollment (to 1,670) and faculty, and in raising endowment 25-fold. Antioch now has some 800 students off working in 35 states at any one time. A year-round calendar allows them to earn B.A.s in the standard four years; the jobs help them learn more than students at sheltered schools. Alexander's parting hope: that "we continue to be a force for constructive change in American higher education." The University of Wyoming is losing lean, granitic Samuel Howell Knight, 70, creator...
...Canterbury School, New Milford, Conn., went on to Yale, graduating cum laude in 1938, got his law degree three years later. While he was still in school, his father went broke during the Depression, and Shriver recalls: "I've always sent money home. I've had to earn...
Partch's galloping whimsy-the very thing that has made him an admirably tireless pioneer-has also kept him a hopeless, penniless outsider all his life He conjures up such titles as Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball 1 earn in the Shower Room and Happy Birthday to You! (Afro-Chinese Minuet), and when he talks about his work he makes it desperately clear that he is working beyond the reach of his vocab-ary. People may smile when he sits town to play, but the trouble with his misic is less the fault of the composer...