Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After that, it's a $10 fine. If that falls to earn the University comptroller the necessary funds, he is empowered to order the Dean's Office to apply disciplinary action. Bouncing checks are considered late payment...
...Sergeant First Class Delbert Jenkins holds the unofficial title of oldest enlisted man in the U.S. Army. Last week, at an Engineer depot in Yokohama, Jenkins explained his unusual position. He saw 16 months of service in World War I, then left the Army to earn more money (as a railroad man and part-time farmer). After raising a family of nine children (he now has 15 grandchildren), Jenkins wangled his way back into the Army in 1942. "I pestered the Army until they let me in again," he said, "to free some younger man for a job where youth...
...drink up all their pay. I have met a flock of teetotalers and some very fancy fashion plates who carry canes and occasionally wear spats . . . Our children catch colds and wear out shoes, just like yours . . . We do not generally catch criminals, preferring to allow the cops to earn their...
...Priority jobs are roughly defined as those inside and outside the University which will net a student more than $100 a year. Right now most of the 500 priority jobs (300 inside the University, 200 outside) pay between $250 and $400. Some (nightwatchmen and night switch-board operators especially) earn as much...
Some may think it in poor taste for students to criticize the Student Porters who attempt to earn a higher wage at the expense of those who need not work, but it should be noted that many students who do not hold Student Porter jobs hold other part-time jobs for which they must work a full hour for an hour's pay. The present wage scale may be too low, but the remedy is not an indiscriminate adjustment which becomes a tax on the integrity of the student employee. "Economist" Name Witheld by Request