Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day. But you cannot buy enthusiasm; you cannot buy initiative; you cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds and souls. You have to earn these things ... It is ironic that Americans -the most advanced people technically, mechanically and industrially-should have waited until a comparatively recent period to inquire into the most promising single source of productivity: namely, the human will to work. It is hopeful, on the other hand, that the search is now under...
...Werner turned up as the unexpected heroes of a real-life Kriminalschmöker. The boys were hovering near Munich's main railway station, hoping to pick up some pocket money for washing car windows, when the villain of the piece sidled up to them. "Want to earn some money?" he murmured. "Mail this package for me. I'm in a hurry." He handed them a heavy parcel and three marks. Three marks (70?) was big money for such an errand...
Even in Government bonds that much money would earn at least $600,000 a year; in a checking account it earned nothing. Bankers said they had never heard of anything like it. Said one: "Her mother, old Hetty, would never have let her money lie idle like that...
...Tuition. Lawsonites said it would take a student 30 years to earn the degree of "Knowlegian" in Lawsonomy, but that 20 full-time students are working away at it. The school charges no tuition, they said, and it pays no salaries to its teachers. Students (men only) are accepted only on a ten-year basis, and the curriculum consists largely of memorizing Lawson's books. No other reading is permitted; on one occasion, it was even forbidden to refer to a basketball rulebook...
...writer helps them think up ideas, but the comics use only an outline for a script and make up most of the gags as they go along. They will earn about $150,000 apiece in 1952, but they insist that there is nothing difficult about their art. Explains Bob: "All we do is listen to the radio and watch...