Word: earns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year of teaching; and two years of painful attempts to sell bonds, was struggling over Collier car-card copy, setting down, meanwhile, the verses which popped into his wandering mind. While working for Collier, Rhymester Nash collaborated on a book for children, published by Doubleday Page, which did not earn him enough to pay for the copies he bought himself. No good to Doubleday Page as an author, he went to work for them writing book blurbs. One spring afternoon he sent over the teletype to Doubleday's Garden City office a discontented little verse which began...
Brahms' whole life was homely, consistent with his upbringing. His father taught him music with the hope that it might earn him a living. He was set to playing the piano before he could reach the pedals and he was scarcely in his 'teens when he could tootle on a horn and play passably on the violin and 'cello. Father Brahms wanted his son to concentrate on dance tunes, for he often took him to play in the red-light district where they could earn a few thalers and all the supper they could...
...compared to the $163,000,000 spent by national advertisers on all newspaper advertising. But since most of it was diverted from other media (not simply from other parts of newspapers) it was nearly clear gain. And it started funny papers toward the point where, some day, they may earn their own keep-instead of being merely expensive circulation-jerkers...
...suite in Manhattan's sedate Hotel Plaza bustled and hummed last week with brisk activity. After more than a year of thoroughgoing preparation. Promoter Adolph Oettinger Goodwin was ready to launch his Goodwin Plan by which church people will promote the sale of certain manufactured products and thereby earn 2% commissions (TIME. Dec. 4. 1933). Despite the criticism leveled at it last year by church papers, the Plan has whetted the pious appetites of churchgoers who plan to give the proceeds to Ladies' Aid Societies, home mission boards, Christian Endeavor, et al. Furthermore, devout buyers are assured that...
...when the biggest unit in the heaviest of heavy industries can earn a steady profit, the other 60% of steelmakers are prosperous. Big Steel's operations are generally lower than the average for the industry as a whole...