Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of students employed increased by 67 over the previous year. Term time earnings reached the highest point since 1932-33, while summer earnings continued downward for the second successive year...
Students in the University earned $206,807 during the past year in term-time and summer jobs obtained through the University Student Employment Office, as 1215 boosted the 1938 payroll $7649 over that of 1937, Associate Dean George F. Plimpton announced yesterday in his annual report...
Thirty-five per cent of the undergraduates in Harvard College applied for work at the Employment Office during the year, and fourteen per cent of the graduate students. Over eighty per cent of the term-time applicants were placed in jobs, but only thirty-two per cent of the summer applicants. Term-time earnings through the Employment Office were $107,950, compared to $98,151 the year before, while summer earnings decreased to $98,857 from $101,007 the year before...
That Hormel executives are classed as employes and will share in the plan is altogether logical. For Jay Hormers executives go to work at the same time as his packers-7:30 in summer-and President Hormel works at a steel desk that is exactly like 250 other steel desks in Hormel's single vast executive office...
...summer of 1929, Faulkner was back in Oxford, and his financial situation was getting desperate. He had written a brilliant, bitter, difficult book, The Sound and the Fury, which Publisher Harrison Smith assured him would not sell. He had married Mrs. Estelle Oldham Franklin, an Oxford girl who had two children by a previous marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote...