Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that he thought football too rough. He wanted to be a surgeon. One of the older boys in the neighborhood -one Harry Armstrong-taught him to box to protect himself against bullies. After graduating from high school, he hitchhiked to Los Angeles with his coach to try to earn some money to go to college. They soon found themselves in the Los Angeles bread lines. There a local fight promoter named Tom Cox picked them up one day and offered them $1 apiece to box on his programs. No great shakes was Henry Jackson...
School: Maryland youngsters leave school, on the average, at the end of the ninth grade. Most thought their education had helped them enjoy life, but three out of ten believed it had not helped them much to earn a living. Yet the fact is that the high-school graduate is paid 50% more than the youngster who did not finish elementary school...
After concentrating in Engineering Sciences In the College, a man many earn his master's degree in one additional year in the Graduate School of Engineering, and will then be at least equal to the technical school graduate in technical education. From the broader education offered in a University, however, he is sure to have a broader outlook, both within his own field and outside of it. It is not likely that the engineering student hero will become narrow, for he has the opportunity, indeed almost the compulsion, of meeting students with other interests...
...escorted through the streets customers from Jewish stores who were forced to carry signs reading: "I am an Aryan pig. I bought from a Jewish shop." Meanwhile, the official Vienna Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter, after declaring that by 1942 no Jew would have the opportunity to earn a living in Vienna, warned: "Jews! Abandon all hope. Our net is so fine that you will not find a hole in it through which you can slip to return to the fleshpots of Egypt. There is only one possibility for you : emigrate - if some one will accept you." While Herr...
...Post: "Do you mind telling what you earn...