Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sets out to avenge Little Emily when David's friend Steerforth betrays her, Lionel Barrymore wears the chin whiskers of a Yarmouth fisherman. David's widowed mother (Elizabeth Allen); Mr. Murdstone (Basil Rathbone) who marries her, frightens her to death and packs David off to earn his living; violent Aunt Betsey (Edna May Oliver), who befriends David and beats such visitors as ride donkeys to her Dover cottage; Mr. Dick (Lennox Pawle), her shrewd, erratic house guest who was always getting the head of King Charles I into his writings; Dora (Maureen O'Sullivan) who uses...
...Elder, until 1933, it paid its $7 preferred dividend on the quarterly dot. Then the dividend was cut to $2, and arrears now amount to $36,000,000. A restoration of the dividend would mean only one thing: the presumably sagacious Steel directors were convinced that Steel can earn it and earn it steadily...
...urging that the engineer of the overtaking train be "drastically punished" (i. e. shot), the government newsorgan Izvestia conjectured that he had run past a stop signal to earn a bonus for being on time, added, "During 1934 there have been 63 proven instances of engineers passing closed semaphores on the Moscow-Leningrad line to earn such premiums...
...universities used in such a way as to enable the secondary school graduates of real ability to continue their education irrespective of the financial status of their parents. This means we should allow the able student to devote his time to his studies without the distraction of trying to earn his living...
...time last year to 53,000. Taking 100 as the measure of Swedish production in 1929, it is up from 79 during 1932 to 101 today. Typical of pleasant surprises, to which Swedes are now growing accustomed, is the latest report of the State Railways. They were expected to earn 12,000,000 kroner during the fiscal year which began last July, actually cleaned up 15,000,000 kronor in the first four months...