Word: earns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried his campaign for the Hoover recovery program flamboyantly into Tennessee. At Johnson City he was heckled and booed because of his opposition to the Bonus, his treatment of the B. E. F. When a policeman started to oust the heckler, Secretary Hurley exclaimed: "Let him alone. Let him earn his money. Such demonstrations are prompted by reports of the American Legion convention broadcast by a Boston ward-heeling politician who never saw the inside of a U. S. uniform. . . .? Yes, I'm opposed to the Bonus and I've got nerve enough to say so but Governor Roosevelt...
...foreign student arriving in the U. S. outside his nation's quota last week had sought to earn 50? at his college by rocking a professor's baby or washing dishes in a chophouse, he would promptly have found himself under investigation, subject to arrest and deportation. He might work in exchange for room & board or part of his tuition fees, but he could earn no U. S. cash. If he did, or if in entering he lacked adequate expense money-and immigration officials could make certain by demanding $500 bond-he had to go back where...
...course there are simple-minded people who still inquire what need a university has to make money out of a football team, particularly when the boys who earn the money have to work so hard that they have very little time for the intellectual life which is assumed to be the purpose of the university. Such people point to the fact that no great university of the Old World--not Oxford, nor Paris, nor Berlin, nor Bologna--has ever made a cent out of football. But this is all beside the point. Our universities did not grow into universities...
...only an opportunity for Yerkes Observatory to earn a few score unexpected dollars, the eclipse is a godsend to New England. The New England Council, regional business builder, began to advertise the eclipse in magazines and newspapers last February. The Council got out a special eclipse folder. The New England Hotel Association distributed 100,000 copies of a special brochure on the phenomenon. North Conway and Provincetown, Mass.. Wolfeboro, Littleton and Whitefield. N. H. and Fryeburg, Me.?all communities in the path of the totality shadow?have had men & mail calling attention to their excellent locations...
With U. S. colleges opening in a month or so, many & many a student is counting his dollars, casting up his college budget. In nearly every institution he may apply for a loan, earn part or all of his living expenses. In inland districts there are colleges which will accept farm produce for tuition. If a student is unemployed but properly qualified he may take free courses at places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Washington University (St. Louis) or Lawrence College (Appleton, Wis.). Many another college, like the University of Missouri last week and the University of Iowa three weeks...