Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buried in Professor Skinner's report is the note that at least one of his pigeons appeared on a window sill and virtually volunteered for the experiment; the word is obviously getting around. As far as we're concerned, pigeons exist solely to give monument cleaners a chance to earn an honest living. An educated pigeon will inevitably try to get something more...
Broken Yardstick. The blue chips themselves, even after their long rise, still looked cheap in relation to profits and dividends. For example, the 30 stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average will earn this year an estimated $25 per share v. 1929's $19.31. Even at their peak of last week, they were still yielding dividends of almost 6% v. 1.9% at the 1929 high of 386 and 3½% at the 1946 high...
...What We Are Doing." Replied Scott Lucas: "The laws of a government are considered civilized to the extent that they protect the life of its citizens against the conduct and acts of others. The right of life is no less than the right to work and earn a livelihood . . . A nation which must call upon every man and woman, regardless of race or religion, to protect it in time of grave crisis should secure to each of its citizens the right equally with all men to earn a livelihood . . . What we are doing here is trying to solve rationally...
...Upsala it takes 11 years to earn a Ph.D. and they are as "rare as hens' teeth," Murdock says. When the candidate is ready, he tacks his thesis Luther wise, to the main front door of the University. The ensuing orals often last two days and resemble court-room battles. One professor is appointed to defend the candidate, and another criticizes him, Murdock reports...
...York cops knew by the head lines that Gambler Frank Erickson was coming - and they baked him a cake. Four days after the pudgy-faced bookmaker told a Senate committee that he was earn ing $100,000 a year from the rackets, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan raided Erickson's oak-paneled Park Avenue office suite. Armed with a warrant, the D.A.'s men spent a leisurely day riffling through the files, trucked away five drawers and three cartons full of canceled checks, stubs, diaries and receipts dating back 14 years...