Word: subsists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, the Committee must find some solution. What is this to be? Is Harvard to send its scouts to the high schools in search of potential All-American material and to have its football squad practice until 6.30 o'clock every day? Or, is Harvard to continue to subsist on the scanty fare of an annual victory over New Hampshire? Either alternative is undesirable in the extreme, and it is the task of the Committee to find a path that will lead between these poles on some middle course. That is, it must develop a policy which will bring...
...tried all the known diets to rid himself of nervous dyspepsia: vegetarian, raw meat, raw vegetables, nuts. milk. But he could probably subsist on publicity alone. It is meat and drink to him. He is not much of a businessman. In one breath he says that his publishing business brings him in more than the $10,000 salary of California's Governor. In the next he swears he has less than $150 in the bank. Fact is, the Sinclairs are still floundering in insolvency as a result of financing Director Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder Over Mexico, Upton...
...week at a total cost of $2.24. That sum bought potatoes, pork, lamb, canned milk, butter, flour, rice, prunes and eggs. But no fruit, cereal or fresh milk. Those were the foods, that the amount, on which Hartford social workers last week hoped indigent Hartford families could subsist...
...typically furious crusade. The conp-de-grâce came in 1917 when the State Supreme Court upheld a Red-light Abate ment Act, permitting the city to proceed in civil court against owners of property used for immoral purposes. For a few gloomy years "the Coast" tried to subsist on tourist trade by pretending to be tough and bawdy; but its harlots had been driven out of the district. "Now, of course," says good-humored Author Asbury, ''San Francisco has no prostitutes...
...women, was the most "sweated" trade. Unscrupulous employers, with a labor surplus at hand, had battered wages down to the Chinese coolie level. In many a sweatshop the "U. S. standard of living," which the textile tariff is supposed to protect, had declined to a point where workers could subsist only with the help of charity. Girls were sleeping in subways because they could not earn the price of a bed. Hospitals were filling with women who had worked themselves into a state of collapse for a pittance...