Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believing that there is nothing morally wrong in offering a football player room, tuition, and a job by which he can earn his board...
Weeks of the hardest kind of work and effort were rewarded Saturday when Harvard's football eleven rose to inspired heights to claw the Princeton Tiger into submission and earn...
...known to be a man of individual and tenacious opinions. He believed in phrenology. He despised smoking, drinking, ballet dancing. He was proud of being a self-made man, who had been schooled intermittently in his youth, braiding straw in his father's farmhouse in Franklin, Mass, to earn his books, working his way through Brown University and Litchfield (Conn.) Law School. In 1832, when his wife Charlotte Messer, daughter of Brown's president, had died, Lawyer Mann's hair supposedly turned white in a single night and he became more reclusive and contemplative than ever...
...eleven hour day, spend evenings singing and dancing, like a siesta at noon, a fiesta every weekend. Threshers, who climb and shake the trees, make from $4 to $6 a day. Gatherers, who pick the nuts up from the ground or off canvas spread under the tree, earn between $1.50 and $3 a day. This year growers will pay 5? to 6? per Ib. to get the crop harvested, will sell native varieties to pecan shelters for 10? or 11? per Ib., improved varieties at a small premium. A year ago native nuts brought...
Looking wise, local journalists wrote that tourists seldom learn of these cities' numerous resorts, mostly patronized by Canadians. Worst of Montreal Vice, opined local reporters, is the depression-bred habit of some impecunious high school girls, who earn pin money by stopping briefly after school in questionable houses, then go on home to their unsuspecting and respectable parents...