Word: availing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council added the weight of its support to the 1052 names already backing the move when it unanimously recommended that the University avail itself of the radio income as a means of making the proposed $40,000 cut in next year's athletic budget unnecessary...
Then Jones studied the deal. Abruptly he announced that the coupon rate they proposed (3½%) was too high. The bankers argued to no avail. Three days before the March i deadline, an RFC underling called the Chase and said that RFC would take the whole issue. Average interest rate: just under 3.2%. To the bankers, that meant good-by to two years' work, underwriting profits up to $2,000,000. It also meant the death of an illusion about Jesse Jones...
...analogous question concerns the broadcasting of speeches delivered at Harvard. Inquiry about the possibility of such broadcasts evoked the reply that the Corporation has not yet acted on the matter and will not do so for quite some time. Certainly Harvard need not hesitate to avail itself of the most important present-day method of spreading information and stimulating community thought. And it is needless to say that unnecessary delay on any public matter is, at present, bad business...
Last year 250 Seniors took the examination for the purpose of determining their own abilities, but this is probably the last year that Seniors will be able to avail themselves of the opportunity of taking the examinations free of charge...
...second half the desperate Johnnics buckled down and threatened several times but still to no avail. The Tiger remained untamed, for the third period found another counter added to the Orange and Black collection...