Word: defray
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Last year needy students obtained over a million dollars with the assistance of the University to defray their expenses...
...might be expected another twenty cents of that dollar goes to undertaking costs, while two-hundred the of a cent for alteration rooms to be all that is spent in keeping abreast of the times. Half a cent removes all the rabbis, ten times that amount being mood to defray the expenses of House Administration...
...thoughts of recreation had been inseparably associated with the whiskey jug found themselves being wheedled into the belief that boxing was a pastime fit for gentlemen and sportsmen. By 1922 Johnny La Rowe was assistant to the boxing coach. Before he became head coach in 1925, he also helped defray the expenses of the team. Last year, somewhat unwillingly, Coach La Rowe consented to accept a salary commensurate with his services. Now 67, confined to crutches, he has begun to learn the patois of his job. Last week he urged his team...
Although the use of this lot for parking was suggested by undergraduates, it was not supposed that a prohibitive rate would be levied. The University must charge something to defray the cost of maintenance but a lot completely used, at a low rate, would be financially better for Lehman Hall than a lot only sparsely filled at a high rate. A fifty per cent reduction of the present rate is the only way to make this lot advantageous to both the University and the students. The increased patronage would adequately cover the difference between the income the lot now yields...
...York City's poultry markets much trefah (unclean) fowl is foisted upon Jews as kosher. A mediator appointed by Mayor LaGuardia recommended that plombes (lead seals) be attached to kosher fowl as they are to kosher meats; that a tax of iff per fowl be levied to defray costs of vigilant inspection. The city poulterers rejected the plan, called the rabbis ''bearded racketeers...