Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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M.I.T. employees earn slightly less than Harvard's; but this is because Tech refuses to surpass the University, McCarthy said. Officials there claim Harvard is the richest university in the country, and it would be impossible to equal its wages...
...potential free-lance writer, DeVoto said, must have some other means of support during his years of "apprenticeship" before he can hope to earn a living by writing...
...Hard to Earn. Some of Rimrock Annie's settlements seemed hard earned. Over the years, she claims she has had more than 40 spinal punctures because of her faked skull fractures. Once, in the rest room of the Pacific Greyhound Bus Line in Reno, she apparently took a too realistic spill on her head. She regained consciousness in a hospital. A neurologist, called in on the case, looked her over and ordered a brain operation. Some bone was removed, and she lay close to death for days. For this ordeal she collected her biggest claim...
College football has grown tremendously--enough to earn itself the status of a "national scandal." It has shaken the conservative foundations of many colleges, making them bid in a competitive human market. In return, football has offered these colleges prestige and money, not only to attract and support better football players, but also to bolster the college's position in the educational world...
...Molly's" WAF commission is a "rank" insult to the many intelligent service women in all the branches who have had to earn their commissions the hard way ... I suggest that on her next gift ride from the taxpayers, they take her up 30,000 feet sans oxygen and sans girdle, put her into a spin and let her bring it out herself...