Dancers, cooks, and play-actors received the highest consideration, since their earnings were large.

[402] [Booty, earnings.]

"But if Mrs. Owen's earnings were not large, they were very regular, and she had no fastidious tastes.

RENT AND SELLING PRICE CHAPTER VII RISK-BEARING AND ENTERPRISE §1. PROFITS AND EARNINGS OF MANAGEMENT §2.

Had he been a man of less honor, he might have taken advantage of the bankrupt law, which would have left his future earnings free from past claims; but he refused to take any step that would remove his obligation to pay the debt.

More even than us, economically, does it concern the overcrowded and limited states of Europe, where labor is cheap, and the necessaries of life absorb all the efforts, to decide whether so much of the earnings of the poor is annually thrown away in idle stimulation.

Taking the four ordinary divisions: Rent, as payment for the use of land, for agriculture, housing, mines, etc.; Interest for the use of business capital; Profit as wages of management and superintendence; and Wages, the weekly earnings of the working-classes, we find that the national income can be thus fairly apportioned Rent £200,000,000.

6,900,000, we shall find that the average yearly income of a working- class family comes to about £94, or a weekly earnings of about 36s.

Of these no less than 316,000, or 35 per cent, belong to families whose weekly earnings amount to less than 21s.

" Next comes B, a thicker stratum of some 100,000, or 11½ per cent., largely composed of shiftless, broken-down men, widows, deserted women, and their families, dependent upon casual earnings, less than 18s.

Class C consists of 75,000, or 8 per cent., subsisting on intermittent earnings of from 18s.

Above these, forming the top stratum of "poor," comes a large class, numbering 129,000, or 14½ per cent., dependent upon small regular earnings of from 18s.

of the inhabitants, live upon earnings varying from 21s.

It is not enough to know what the weekly earnings of a poor family are, we must inquire what they can buy with them.

She read, and studied, and fitted herself as a teacher in a neighboring academy, and persisted in claiming the right of a daughter to place all the amount of her earnings in the family purse.

The facts, indeed, were sad enough, for Défago had a wife at Rat Portage, and his earnings were the family's sole means of support.

Yet between 1826 and 1832, John had saved fourteen pounds out of his miserable earnings, to be expended to the last farthing on his brother's recovery from the second quarry accident.

" Mr. Spragg's astonishment on learning that his son-in-law contemplated maintaining a household on the earnings of his Muse was still matter for pleasantry between the pair; and one of the humours of their first weeks together had consisted in picturing themselves as a primeval couple setting forth across a virgin continent and subsisting on the adjectives which Ralph was to trap for his epic.

In other words, to prevent by legal restraints one class of men from seizing upon another class, and robbing them at pleasure of their earnings, their time, their liberty, their kindred, and the very use and ownership of their own persons.

Does the power to rob a man of his earnings, rob the earner of his right to them?

In other words, to prevent by legal restraints one class of men from seizing upon another class, and robbing them at pleasure of their earnings, their time, their liberty, their kindred, and the very use and ownership of their own persons.

Employment, hours, and earnings in prosperity and depression, United States, 1920-1922.

In 1913 the receipts of this nature (earnings of departments and of public service enterprises) were nearly $500,000,000.

The total "earnings" (this means here receipts, not profits) of public service enterprises in incorporated places were $120,000,000. § 6.

But many other plans have been tried to compel the railroads to contribute, the chief being by taxes on dividends, gross earnings, equipment, and valuation of capital stock, taxed either to the company or to the stock-holders, (Connecticut since 1849).