Word: pays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green booters an opportunity to which they added a new spirit gained during the half. Harvard's eleven relapsed into their slipshod habits of the past few weeks, bunching, muffing, and slowing down, and the result was that Doano, Indian left inside, and Eckhardt, high scoring center, hit pay dirt and tied up the score...
...these departments, where middle-group teaching is being pared to the bone, is Government. Professor Holcombe has suggested that the remedy lies in handing the department two new permanent appointments, presumably full professorships. This would mean diverting funds from other departments -- robbing Peter to pay Holcombe. Regardless of the long-run merits of such a plan, it is unnecessary. The Government Department can solve its problems for the present and still live within its current income if it is permitted to appoint "frozen" associate professors...
...home folks think he has "gone national." This week Mr. Maverick got into his worst trouble yet. Along with a local official and a former business agent of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, he was indicted by a Bexar County grand jury charged with using union contributions to pay poll taxes for some of his Labor voters...
About that time Mrs. Cunningham decided that Texas summers were too hot. Bill wrote to the Post, asked for a job at $50 a week (the Dallas News was paying him $55) and got it. But when he opened his first pay envelope in Boston he found $75. "There's been a mistake," Bill told his Sports Editor. "I'm only making $50." Said the Sports Editor: "Keep it, you dumb bastard-that's what you should have asked for in the first place." Bill kept it. He has never had to ask the Post...
...these quick obligations it had $1,000,000 cash. In New York, as in San Francisco, October's attendance is proving the best of the year (2,492,096 paid admissions for the first two weeks). It looked as if the Fair, by closing day, might just about pay off all but about $500,000 of its current debts. But the bald-faced fact was that no Fair official expected there would be a penny left to pay the outstanding $23,982,808 of the Fair's original $27,000,000 bond issue. The World of Tomorrow...