Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...player who depends upon his game for his livelihood is certainly not an amateur," said Major Moore. "It would be perfectly right for Tilden and Richards to write and even get paid for it if the articles were unsigned. As matters stand new it is not so much what is in their articles as who wrote them. That gives them prominence. A similar thing happened with Ouimet, former open golf champion, who started to run a gold shop, but was forced to close it in order to remain as amateur. The various associations which govern these sports however, have...
...York Times is no official charity organization. It is part of a great industry seeking news, spreading news, molding public opinion, and therewith gaining its livelihood. The "Hundred Neediest Cases" it has undertaken in its non-official character, but it has made the work one of the most notable achievements of that nature today...
...University, asks friends of college football to combat the forces staging professional games. He fears that American Rugby will become contaminated by the spirit of professional play and does not conceal a belief that the touts and gamblers of other sports will be diverted to football for a seasonal livelihood. He cites instances of amateurs being induced to enter professional games under an assumed name...
...Crittenden perhaps overstates the inefficacy of a liberal education as an aid in the struggle for a livelihood. It is doubtless true that it will not, like the technical education, assure anyone of an immediate and fairly lucrative place in the production machine of the nation. Engineers, draughts men, and accountants and their ilk are in constant demand. But the very fact that they have been trained in one sole field usually keeps them engineers, drafts men and accountants. For the positions at the top, it is the knowledge of human nature and human relations and the hospitality...
Secret agents are reputed to have discovered that when Golostchokov (the man who had charge of the heads) told his secretary about the decapitations, the latter clapped his hands with joy and shouted: "Now, at least, our livelihood is assured! If necessary to get out, we can go to America and exhibit the heads of the Romanoffs in the music halls...