Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their mental program Hiram "has eliminated the horror" of mind-years and finals, in the words of Robert Hubbell, publicity director, with whom we have corresponded on the subject. Hubbell, tells us that the students are given plenty of extra; time, so that three quarters of them earn part of their expenses. Although Juniors take comprehensive exams. Hubbell exphasizes that this is on "general knowledge," viz. no craming...
Pace Quickened. Germany's 700,000 Jews have been tortured physically, robbed of homes and properties, denied a chance to earn a living, chased off the streets. Now they are being held for "ransom," a gangster trick through the ages. But not only Jews have suffered. Out of Germany has come a steady, ever-swelling stream of refugees, Jews and Gentiles, liberals and conservatives, Catholics as well as Protestants, who could stand Naziism no longer. TIME'S cover, showing Organist Adolf Hitler playing his hymn of hate in a desecrated cathedral while victims dangle on a St. Catherine's wheel...
Whaling is not what it used to be in the days of Moby Dick. Stinking old sailing whalers have given way to stinking little steamers. Earringed harpooners have yielded to modern marksmen, who earn as much as $10,000 a season for shooting harpoons from a cannon. Instead of being dragged alongside, the whale is pulled aboard a "floating factory" ship and converted into oil right on the spot...
...services), Jockey Longden, like most of his colleagues, receives $10 for every race he enters (up to last week he had entered 1,091 this year), $15 extra for every race he wins and 10% of the winning purse. His income this year is about $50,000. Although some earn more than many a bank president and others earn less than plumbers, all jockeys complain that they have to spend 50% of their earnings for expenses...
...ability to read twelve languages was a major factor in winning for Archibald B. Roosevelt Jr. '40, one of the four Rhodes Scholarships given annually in the New England district. Coming from Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., Roosevelt is a consistently brilliant scholar, and the only Harvard man to earn the award for this year...