Word: earns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson, now 75, turned up at commencement to make an announcement. He had already given Colby $11,000; now he wanted to give it $96,000 more-adding up to more than his $104,000 salary in 13 years as president. Explained Johnson shyly: "A schoolmaster doesn't earn much money, but I have lived frugally and made some prudent investments. I would be able to give the college more if I hadn't made some imprudent ones...
...hand (machine milking, says the bureau, is less tiring but harder on breast tissues) ; in the middle of her donation she often "feels quite depleted" and stops for lunch. The bureau pays her 15? an oz. for her milk, or about $44 a week-more than the attending nurses earn. Mrs. Joell's production is the envy of the bureau's other milk donors (most of whom earn about $70 a month), and she may remain fresh for 15 to 18 months...
After 18 months he was offered freedom if he would seduce a notorious Austrian spy, bring her back to Venice. He consented, set forth, arrived to find the spy was Henriette. She had been doing a little spying all along, she confessed, to earn pin money, and enough to recover her family estate...
...Congressional determination to "get the bureaucrats," the result will be a one way ticket on the inflationary joy-ride. If President Truman signs the final bill, he faces cost of living, strikes that will make him wonder if he ever knew what labor troubles really were. He will earn the embittered contempt of those who, like veterans in college, must live within a frozen income. And, more important than the hatred of the more seriously injured citizens, he will have endangered the social structure of the nation...
Borgia finally offers Machiavelli a job, at much better pay than he will ever earn in Florence. Machiavelli turns it down, partly out of loyalty to Florence, partly because he has seen what happens to Borgia's henchmen. When he returns home at the end of his mission, he realizes that he has had an education in statecraft and princely behavior, also in the behavior of women. He drafts a saucy play about a woman like Aurelia, hints that he may some day write a book about a man like Borgia. "My dear Niccoló," says a friend...