Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Das Schwarze Korps, descended from appalling generalities to particulars. It proposed this program to destroy Germany's Jews as follows: first impoverish them; this will end in the Jews' having no other means of livelihood than to descend to criminality; "at this stage of development we should therefore face the hard necessity of exterminating the Jewish underworld in the same fashion in which ... we exterminate criminals generally?by fire and sword...
Those students whose education leans heavily on aid from the University in the form of scholarships and part-time jobs, members of the teaching staff with a wary eye on their salaries, and all the other horde of workers and officers for whom Harvard provides livelihood, need not fear. If Harvard is in financial difficulties at present, and there is no indication in the Report that it is, one thing remains certain--the marking up or down of book value will have no immediate consequences on its ability to provide for its dependents. The book revaluation step is but necessary...
Although Fred Jacoby is a professional motorboat racer (61% of U. S. outboard racers are professional), he earns his livelihood as a scenic artist, painting backdrops for Broadway shows. A veteran of twelve years of riding flying shingles, he knows better than to depend on his racing earnings. In 1935, when he won the Albany marathon (worth $250) and spreadeagled the field in almost every other regatta, he wound up with the coveted...
...commissions were created not merely to find facts but to formulate standards and impose duties which may go so far as to destroy a man's livelihood. Whatever jurists may say, to businessmen the imposition of duties is tantamount to adjudication of rights, while the writing or rules is legislation to all practical purposes. At the very least these functions are more than fact-finding...
...make any particular difference who wins, and much of that will be in the breaks of the weather anyway. They are both good boats, ad the races represent sailing returned to the days before the present yachting craze, back to the sea and wind and men who owe their livelihood to them. The sight of Ben Pine and Angus Walters behind those two wheels is a fine one; and the world will be missing something when the influx of beam trawlers, Diesels and the hustle and bustle of today make it no more than a memory...