Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report confounded defeatists who moan that U. S. collegians can expect nothing but frustration. If the typical college graduate is unlikely to become rich, he is still better able to get a job, earn a living and stay married than are his non-college contemporaries...
...with three exceptions, never seen a big city. First stop after they left their strike-bound coal fields was Washington, where they were bedded in a tourist camp, rose at 4:30 to begin sightseeing, ended the day marveling at how little work Congressmen did to earn their...
From the tutor's point of view, the disadvantage of the tutoring schools is that, while certain people may now earn large sums by tutoring the large majority of those who would and could tutor are unable to get any work at all. The appointments in the schools are often made on the basis of friendship rather than merit. By having more legitimate private tutoring, and less group reviews, many more students would be given needed employment...
...ARCHITECTURAL FORUM for April brought discussion of low-cost houses down to brass tacks, the two sharpest being 1) that more than 70% of U. S. families now earn less than $2,000 a year, and 2) that the 35% with incomes between $1,000 and $2,000 in good times and bad make up a vast and virtually untapped market for building. For this 35%, houses must cost from $4,000 down. ARCHITECTURAL FORUM gave architects virtually the first survey of the problems of designing houses in this price range, which they have hitherto ignored...
...future accomplishments in art depend on the degree to which the layman can develop an intelligent, imaginative and critical attitude toward, the work of contemporary painters, sculptors, architects and designers, it would seem desirable that we cease oncourag- ing art to live on its reputation, and insist that' it earn one in our time and with our help. I do not believe it a less scholarly enterprise to investigate the effects of aluminum on sculptural form, the relation between function and proportion in the automobile, or the color dynamics of the animated cartoon, than to explore...