Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guaranteed annual wage to give every laid-off worker a weekly paycheck equal to 32 times his hourly pay rate, e.g., $70.40 a week for a worker making $2.20 an hour v. the $88 he would earn in a normal 40-hour week...
...special inducement for foreign capital by cutting the discount rate (at which it lends money to private banks) from a relatively high 3½% to 3%. Last week West Germany's central bank followed suit. The effect was to reduce the interest that dollars (and other currencies) can earn by going abroad. At the same time, the cut meant lower interest rates on British and West German commercial loans, thus more borrowing by domestic business for expansion and reconstruction...
South Korean Congressmen earn $78 a month and-in the eyes of highhanded old Syngman Rhee-aren't worth even that. Rhee has publicly branded individual legislators as "nincompoops" and "opportunists," and has privately described the Republic's unicameral Assembly as "probably the worst legislative body in the world...
...Harvard Guide were solely a bibliography of American history compiled by six distinguished Harvard professors, it would earn loud, professional acclaim, for it will save historians thousands of hours of digging in years to come. But because it is dedicated primarily to the beginner in history, it has even wider usefulness. Preliminary essays explain the changing roles of the historians through the years, while others list trade secrets of the profession: where to find material, how to evaluate and take notes on it; how to organize, write, and even sell a book...
...competitive world, Britain has to earn her way-if only to pay for her social services-and Rab Butler knows it. It cannot be done, he believes, by more security, more plans, more taking in of each other's washing. It can be done by more freedom and hard work. That is the challenge-and the hope-that Rab Butler and the new Toryism offer Britain...