Word: unpaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Vanderbilt, the best job Dinah could get in Manhattan was as an unpaid singer on a local radio station. Months later, on a bleak New Year's Eve when she had got down to her last nickel, she almost committed suicide...
Unwanted, underestimated, and as yet unpaid, Harvard's two-score farmers and as many Radcliffe farmerettes didn't find their apple orchard any Garden of Eden yesterday, but they expressed themselves as "highly satisfied" with the results of the College's most recent venture into the agricultural world...
...session is at least as large as in the whole past academic year. Searching for a reason is more fruitless than trying to develop good crews at Yale. The wear and tear on equipment caused by calisthenics is absolutely nil, except for boxing gloves, and the instructors are mostly unpaid Mil Sci men. To say that furnishing a locker and towels costs the University three dollars is nothing short of ludicrous. Total income from the charges imposed on undergraduates is easily fourteen thousand dollars, without including the revenue from Army and Navy officers at the same rate. That sum cannot...
...Failure in their pledges directly threatens the existence of one of the undergraduates' most potent powers for the good, Phillips Brooks House. The Student Council has collected some $8300 from 90 per cent of its debtors, a much better record that at this time last year, but that extra unpaid thousand determines whether students will continue to derive the benefits of their own organizations. Then, besides the urgency of the present problem, there is the usual number who contribute not a cent. This year, it amounts to one-fifth of the College...
...technique of infiltration and the organization of a people's army, which he had learned in Spain. Not until May 14, 1940 did he get any official backing. That day the earnest, professorial voice of the then War Secretary, Anthony Eden, appealed over the BBC for unpaid volunteers to prepare for action in the event of invasion. The Government expected 250,000 volunteers...