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Word: earned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...away to California. Twenty months later, totally broke, he hitchhiked home, worked on a road gang under a searing sun for a dollar a day. His mother kept drumming college into his head, and Lyndon finally conceded that "I'd rather use my head than my back to earn a living." He chose Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos because "it was nearest my home, I could get in, and it was most economical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Lyndon Johnson's School Days | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...father had gone broke trading cotton, so Lyndon arrived on campus with just $75 borrowed from a Blanco bank and began earning $15 a month as a janitor. Yet board and room cost $30 a month. The school's kindly president, Dr. C. E. Evans, let Lyndon put a cot in a small room above Evans' garage. In return, Lyndon became Evans' long-striding legman, running errands all over campus. By eating just two meals a day, Lyndon cut his food expenses to $15 a month; his laundry cost 50? a week. When Lyndon ran short, Evans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Lyndon Johnson's School Days | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...order to create a New Town, he must acquire immense acreage, invest large sums in landscaping and nonproductive (at least immediately) projects such as artificial lakes and golf courses, and figure on waiting five years or more before the place catches on, the people move in and he can earn a return on his investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Towns: 18 Miles from the Capital | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...sailors' families settled in remote Welsh seaports like Tiger Bay. Then, when a large number of dark-skinned Asians, Africans and West Indians began flocking to Britain in the early 1950s, the British at first consoled themselves with the thought that these tropical people had only come to earn a nest egg, and would return to buy a trawler in Barbados or a camel in Karachi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Dark Million | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

Justice, at least, seemed to be on the strikers' side. Although well paid by the standards of the time-a skilled hand could earn as much as $70 a week, the equivalent of $280 today-steelworkers more than earned their wages. Working conditions were appalling: twelve-hour shifts, seven-day weeks, temperatures of 150°, no time out for meals, no washing-up facilities, no compensation for injuries. The year before the strike, 300 men were killed and some 2,000 injured on the job in the mills around Pittsburgh alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War for Homestead | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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