Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor, I would protect the interests of career people who perform important services of government in our state. By weeding out the payroll patriots, I would make room for the civil service employees, so they could get their jobs done and earn advancement without political interference...
...always gone his own way. His integrity is as iron-clad as that of the man in his poem: my specialty is living said a man (who could not earn his bread because he would not sell his head) An editor to whom he offered five poems sent him a check for three of them and, rejected the other two. Cummings disdainfully returned the check, and the editor capitulated and bought all five. In spite of his publishers' anxiety, Cummings insisted on publishing one book without a title and others with such bristlers as XLI Poems, CIOPW...
Caterpillar eggs recently joined the ranks of unsiezed contraband. Two ardent Yardling biologists this fall actually resorted to smuggling eggs from Canada in trying to raise half a dozen Japanese silk forms and earn...
...audience repeatedly interrupted Stevenson with applause. Nor did the crowd show hostility when he frankly told them that he would stand by the Democratic platform's civil-rights plank. Said Stevenson: "I should justly earn your contempt if I talked one way in the South and another way elsewhere...
...living partly on sea biscuit, he managed to earn a Ph.D. at Columbia. Later he got a job at Bryn Mawr, published his first textbook, wrote a delicately worded book on prostitution for a group of Manhattan reformers called the Committee of Fifteen. After a brief return engagement at Columbia, he headed west ("You are making a great mistake," cried Nicholas Murray Butler). He taught at Nebraska, in Texas, in Chicago, became head of the economics department at Stanford, finally returned east to teach at Cornell. With Walter Lippmann, he also became one of the first editors...