Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand, he begins to wonder--what next? Perhaps he is spared this decision by birth: some kind of a job awaits him because of family or connections. But perhaps, like thousands of others, he is faced with a free choice of career in which he hopes not only to earn his living, but attain so-called happiness. It is natural at such a time for him to think over the past and to try to figure out what his particular talents are, and in what way he has anything more to contribute than the thousands of others graduating not only...
...contemporary artists worthy of patronage. One must, paradoxically enough, be somewhat of an idealist to be a dealer nowadays. The lean years have an unfortunate way of eating into the fat years. But for the man who wants to be connected with art and at the same time earn a living, the dealer's field can often offer quite a satisfactory means of compromise...
...sale and move out of the State. There is no alternative for us. We pay 52% of our income now to the Federal Government at Washington and under the proposed State Income Tax Law, we shall have to pay an additional 18%, so that out of every dollar we earn from our writings, 70? will go out in taxes...
Purpose of the meeting of tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists was to wave the U. S. flag, kick the New Deal, boost the Liberty League, damn bankers, irritate the petroleum industry and, most sincerely, to help the U. S. farmer earn a living by showing him and the rest of the nation how chemistry can turn farm products to industrial account...
...Canadian boy is eligible for the Alaska trip but he must take the initiative himself. One-third of the cost (which is $81 for boys under 12, $121 for those over) the lad must earn himself. Another third he must wangle from his parents. After that he will have little trouble getting the final third from Mr. Buchanan...