Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faculty member will supervise the practice teaching of more than 35 graduate students who annually earn Education School degrees in the teaching of Social Studies. He will also investigate and attempt to determine the proper content of the elementary social science course...
About 3% of U.S. taxpayers earn $10,000 or more a year. Yet this small slice of the tax economy carries 36% of the nation's income-tax burden (see chart). Some high-salaried executives, C.E.D. suggests, have lost incentive because "what is left after taxes is not worth the effort." The C.E.D. thinks that "high rates of taxes make it more difficult for the individual to accumulate funds for investment, thus penalizing small business, [which] ordinarily can make use of outside financing only at excessive cost . . . The objective of this type of reduction would be to stimulate investment...
...Belgians taught the Bantu to run bulldozers, looms and furnaces, to rivet ships, drive taxis and trucks. Girls with grotesque tribal markings etched into their ebony foreheads sell in shops, teach in schools, nurse in hospitals. Already thousands of natives in the Congo's bustling cities earn $100-$150 a month -more than most workers in Europe, and small fortunes by African standards. They buy sewing machines, phonographs and bicycles in such profusion that Sears, Roebuck has recently put out a special Congo catalogue...
C.P.R's new $75,000-a-year boss left school in his teens to work on the railroad at 40? an hour. Later, Crump finished high school in night classes, took a leave of absence in 1926 to earn a railway mechanical-engineering degree at Indiana's Purdue University. He was hired back as a night foreman, advanced through various jobs until his combination of hard-rock experience, engineering skill and business talent paid off with the top vice-presidency...
...soldiers' britches, how long would it take Joshua to slow down the earth without sliding the soldiers off the battlefield?") DuBridge found himself "enthralled by physics. And I even learned what I had never known before-that it was possible to take graduate work in physics and actually earn money by being a scientist. From that time on, college became an exciting adventure...