Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...empowered by government action?and such action is by no means always just or sensible?to prevent me buying and selling what I want, whence I want, in such a sort and quantity and price as I need for the conduct of my business and the provision of my livelihood. . . . I resent . . . interference. Even if I misjudge, I am entitled to my misjudgment...
...Grass" is a story of the annual migrations of the central Asiatic tribes over the mountain ranges and river valleys to the plains, where grass, the means of livelihood, is obtained...
...gangster, payoff man for Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone. The charge was "vagrancy," a legal excuse conceived by Judge John H. Lyle who issued warrants for 26 "vagrant" Chicago thugs and thereby received national publicity (TIME, Oct. 13). The State set out to show that "Vagrant" Guzik had no visible livelihood...
...Italy's onetime Prime Minister (1919-20), Signore Francesco Saverio Nitti has said: "After the War a rich American, who was deeply touched by the French propaganda, sent an emissary to Belgium with the intention of providing a livelihood for the children whose poor little hands had been cut off. He was unable to discover one. Mr. Lloyd George and myself, when at the head of the Italian Government, carried on extensive investigations as to the truth of these horrible accusations, some of which, at least, were told specifically as to names and places. Every case investigated proved...
...works of a machine are superior, in this case, to the works of man. It is a question if either one is a valuable addition. Football is a boys game: it is not a man's livelihood. All these trappings reduce a team to a Frankenstein constructed for the purpose of crushing other Frankensteins. They aren't necessary elements of any game. An espionage by camera might just as well be carried on in baseball. A slow motion picture would show the batting weakness of a rival college, or it would prove the exact trajectory of a star pitcher...