Word: earning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sailing was the main reason for the Einstein's house-hunting at Wannsee last week. The lake is a bulge in the Havel River and boats for hire are plentiful. And it is not far (only twelve miles) from Berlin, where Dr. Einstein must earn his academic salaries by explaining his physi- cal theories of the world, of electricity, of magnetism, of the real unity...
...life, however, came to an abrupt end. In 1909, when he was 21, Engineer Longley determined to become Lawyer Longley. He entered the University of Michigan. One year, in the middle of his law course, he set aside to attend to his finances and went to Torento to earn some money. But by 1913, he had achieved his second diploma, this time in .law, and he was ready to begin life in earnest...
Displaying blue prints and statistics proudly, M. Le Trocquer confidently stated that a double-track tunnel can be built in six years at a cost of three billion francs ($117,000,000) and would with the greatest ease earn 6%. Concluded M. Le President Le Trocquer: "With the tunnel in operation Paris and London will be only five hours apart...
...only to undermine what prestige the dance might have left in the eyes of Juniors but also to damage beyond calculation the remote possibility of its making the grade. The Class of 1930 is in a position to shake off an onus of traditionalism, escape an unprofitable evening, and earn the gratitude of succeeding classes...
From Mr. Irwin's report of what happened after that, you learn that Mary Pickford's girlhood ambition was to earn $20.000 a year before she was 20, that Samuel Goldwyn's real name is Goldfish, that David Wark Griffith was once a reporter, Cecil B. De Mille a writer of vaudeville sketches, and that Playwright Eugene O'Neill's father, James O'Neill, acted in Zukor's first pictures. You learn how Ben Schulberg and Hiram Abrams. after the latter had been discharged by Zukor, organized United Artists; how Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, David Wark Griffith came...