Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ohio State University took a poll of its graduate students to find out why so many Americans wanted to earn advanced degrees, last week had found that love of learning does not lead all the rest. Said 60% of the M.A. candidates and more than half of the Ph.D.s: higher degrees mean higher salaries...
...rare survivor of a half-forgotten movement which flourished in the early '303. Technocracy was founded by Howard .Scott, an engineering theorist, on the principle that under the present price system the machine is destroying man's chance to earn a living. By "functional control" of production and distribution-including the substitution of energy certificates for money-the Technocrats still claim they can wangle a comfortable living for everybody...
...Pray Without Ceasing." Smart was driven to distraction by overwork and financial worries as early as his Cambridge days, and tried to earn money from his writing. In one play, noted a contemporary, "He acts five Parts himself, & is only sorry, he can't do all the rest, he has also advertised a Collection of Odes; & [as] for his Vanity & Faculty of Lyeing, they are come to their full Maturity, all this . . . must come to a Jayl, or Bedlam...
...away look came into Yermakov's eyes as he explained, "I went down there over spring vacation and met some of them." Then he turned his head away and let out a low howl. Becoming serious again, he added, "But this is only until I earn enough money to come back to Harvard to stay...
...produce more, with the same amount of human effort, by better machines and organization, is a sound economic and social objective, said Wilson. Both G.M. and the U.A.W., he added, accept the principle. Another cardinal principle of free enterprise is to earn good profits by efficiency and progress, and not by "just collecting a toll . . . Some [people], reluctant to face competition, seem to use free enterprise talk as a cloak for a little extra selfishness...