Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose arrival has been heralded in church papers for months. Few days after Christmas the Young People's Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Memphis, had on its program the name of the great Dr. Kagawa, who went to Princeton Theological Seminary (1914-15) and helped earn his way by serving as butler to Manhattan families...
...Editor Garvin thought he was seeing eye-to-eye with King George when he added in the Sunday Observer: "Further sanctions intended to throttle Italy would set fire to the world. . . . The air would rain terrors of the Apocalypse. . . . All statesmen who had taken part in these woes would earn everlasting guilt...
Tigers. Scared by the size of Yawkey's purse, the Tigers' manager, Mickey Cochrane, wangled Outfielder Al Simmons away from the Chicago White Sox for $75,000. Almost certain to earn the cellar position are 73-year-old Manager Mack's hapless Athletics. Of the regular team which won him the World Series in 1929, he has now sold the last member, must, as in 1923, completely rebuild...
...exists in the college, would be greatly benefited by this absorption. For right now the debaters are suffering from insufficient training. The present coach, an excellent mentor, is not paid a cent for his efforts. He has invaluable instruction to give, but he also has a living to earn. Thus the time he can spare for his disciples is almost inconsiderable, and the most mcager of hints have to suffice. His generosity is phenomenal, for he gives his own office as debating headquarters. Still, the dialectic warriors need much more time than he can afford...
This is not more opinion, for a realistic study of the experiences of scholarship holders who are forced to earn a considerable part of their expenses has brought to light case after case of men who are in distress. Some are too burdened with outside work to fulfill the high promise of their earlier years. Some, failing to keep their scholastic average up to the minimum level required of scholarships, are deprived of this assistance and forced to abandon, for a time at least, their scholarly careers. Some keep their studies above the minimum level only at a strain that...