Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well, they all lived with Vag and he didn't pay much attention to any of them, especially during the football season. But Gregory and Phil were stern fellows and Vag was really a little afraid of them. So he saw that they were comfortable and did little favors for them now and then...
...similar tax was proposed by Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend to pay his nationwide pensions. Closest approach to it in actual practice is Hawaii's "gross income...
...strong current in favor of socialized medicine runs through recent writings of physicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Last week a Gallup poll on voluntary health insurance indicated that some 25,000,000 persons largely in the group earning over $980 a year would be willing to pay $3 a month for complete medical and hospital care. Only representative poll taken among doctors was last year when Modern Medicine asked its readership whether they favored use of public funds to provide medical care for low income groups. Over 16,000 doctor-readers replied of whom 54% said...
...offered by the Academy of American Poets for the Fair's Official Poem. Judges: William Rose Benet, Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets, the first prize is big money indeed-twice their average yearly earnings, about three times Poet Laureate John Masefield's yearly pay, equaled only once before, when Harriet Monroe, late editor of Poetry, wangled $1,000 for her official ode on the 1893 Columbian Exposition...
...continued: "The basic reason why farm prices and incomes have averaged no higher, over a run of years, is that farmers' goods and services are available in larger quantities than people are willing to pay for at rates the farmer wants to get. Prices and incomes low in money terms are society's way of putting pressure on the weaker farmers to quit. If this form of pressure is lifted, some other form of pressure, here or elsewhere, must be exerted...