Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Workers & Jobs. For more than a year, the Boekes struggled alone. But they began to attract attention. In time, other children came to work with Boeke-and so did a number of teacher-idealists willing to earn as little as $130 a year. Though the new school taught the sciences and classics, it otherwise resembled no other school. Its pupils were not pupils, but "workers." Its teachers were "co-workers," its classes "groups," its lessons "jobs." Boeke gave no grades, no punishments and few tests; he never allowed anyone to be flunked. Instead of principal, he called himself "general leader...
...party's chief theoretician, Liu Shao-chi, Mao-asked solicitously if they were tired from their rounds, and Franklin admitted that all of them together would not make one "Model Worker." But Mao was in a serious mood. ("He would make an outstanding labor negotiator," said Earn-shaw.) Blandly, he laid on the line his terms for coexistence. He wanted Attlee to ask the U.S. to 1) withdraw the U.S. Seventh Fleet and abandon its support of Chiang; 2) cease arming Japan; 3) cease arming Germany...
...Matheson was the most successful handicapper in the country: a two-dollar ticket on each of his "best bets" (his top choice at every track on every day of racing) would have earned a grand total of $44.10 by year's end. The sum looked hardly impressive, but it was better than any other handicapper's record. It convinced Matheson that if a man in vested in only the best of the Matheson "best bets," he might earn a living...
Cloudy Screen. By sundown, Sunday's quality shows disappear in a flood of guns, games and dramas like the Roy Rogers Show, Earn Your Vacation, the College of Musical Knowledge, the Loretta Young Show and What's My Line? These shows are not bad in themselves-but they offer a cloud no bigger than a TV screen on the Sunday horizon. The increase in their numbers means that network program directors have discovered that Sunday can be a pretty good thing after all. In this frame of mind, they could spoil everything by making Sunday an everyday affair...
...shotgun; last January he fell through a glass shower door, requiring 30 stitches in his arm; last April he sprained his back falling down a flight of stairs. This time, on only 30 minutes' notice, Nightclub Comic Johnny Carson (who is also M.C. of CBS's Earn Your Vacation) took over and did a very funny job. particularly in a doubletalk explanation of the economics...