Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stone, who will play at six today for the first time this year, defeated Goodman in three sets yesterday to earn his ranking. Goodman was previously undefeated in all the freshman matches this year, along with both Mann and Bossart. In fact, Bossart has not yet been defeated, since he and Spencer have won all their second doubles matches to date...
Boehm freely admitted that he had not done much to earn some of these fees, but he stoutly denied that his friends in the White House had ever helped him. One exception, he recalled, was a meeting he arranged between a group of pro-Truman Mississippians, headed by state National Committeeman Clarence S. Hood Jr., and Donald S. Dawson. As a result of the meeting, the Mississippians were eventually placed in charge of dispensing federal patronage in the state of Mississippi-until they were kicked out two months ago after an investigation into federal job-selling...
...would take a person 34 years to earn a night degree if he went to only one class a week. This happens because extension students get only a term's credit for a year's work in one course. They attend late afternoon or evening classes once a week for an hour and a half instead of the three hours a week College men work...
Like the others,* Better Living's 96-page first issue is full of how-to-do-its (freeze strawberries, rewire lamps, earn money at home, arrange flowers, etc.), and the kind of clinical fiction housewives seem to love. The leading story is a cheerful piece on a day in the life of an obstetrician, by Old Standby Faith Baldwin. Sample quote: "If she proved to have a generally contracted pelvis, the measurements and the X ray would chart his course of action-a low Caesarean section, he hoped." Concludes the doctor at day's end: "What a wonderful...
...driver (taking the place of rickshaws) his opinion of the present government. Without exception, everyone of them happily answered that it is now much better. Their main reasons are that there are no more fears of starving the next day; and that they can feel that the money they earn is really trustworthy. Before, the money they earned in the morning might be worthless in the afternoon. Also they didn't know when a Kuomintang officer would suddenly come along and drag them into the army, leaving their families to starve. (There is no military conscription at present.) I have...