Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your willingness to add your great weight to glamorizing intelligence and memory (Van Doren) should earn you new praises. Look what glamorizing did for sex, athletics and big business. Let us hope it can do the same for mental powers. A great many teachers and "students" are probably adding their thanks to the egghead...
...since The Stilt arrived in Kansas, the university field house has been sold out for almost every game. Chancellor Franklin Murphy goes into weekend seclusion to avoid rabid fans "prepared to trade their honor for two seats." Even if Wilt Chamberlain never achieves his tremendous promise, he will easily earn the trust fund that wealthy Kansas alumni are rumored to have put aside as his graduation present...
...urge to prove their courage by risking their necks. Only in 1948, when the Winter Olympics were held at St. Moritz, did Cresta-type sledding get worldwide recognition as part ot the games. But year after year the international brigade returns. There are always a few novices anxious to earn the red-and-white badge which signifies that they have conquered Cresta and entitles them to a 20% discount at the Kulm Hotel bar. Lately, the Cresta roster has been larded with the names of such middle-class sportsmen as Bibbia, come to compete with nobility in the Alps. Last...
...himself, apparently forgot was that 1) Red agents have had ten years of alliance in which to infiltrate Socialist ranks and 2) for most of those years Nenni left supervision of the party machinery to the late Rodolfo Morandi, an iron-fisted crypto-Communist. Besides, many influential Nenni Socialists earn their bread and butter as bureaucrats in Italy's biggest labor union, the Red-dominated CGIL...
...After trade, this Administration believes the most desirable source of dollar income is private investment . . . Loans have to be repaid, both principal and interest, whether or not the investment earns a profit. Not so with private investment. For the private investor to withdraw a dividend, he must first earn it. And investments are like trade in that there is no limit to their expansion...