Word: defray
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...tongue as spoken in its native habitat, the introduction of a series of well selected German films would serve a definite purpose in Cambridge. As it is not permitted to charge admission at the Geography Building, it might be possible at each performance to take up a collection to defray the expenses of what should prove to be a popular innovation...
While no previous notification of the student's intention to take these examinations is necessary, an entrance fee of one dollar, the purpose of which is to defray the expenses of the Committee, will be collected that afternoon. Further information is available at the office of Dean Hindmarsh, in University Hall...
...demand, the need for it is clear enough. The CRIMSON, after an investigation, declared last year that the tract behind the Business School could be prepared at a cost of less than seven hundred dollars. This is a sum which a very small initial fee from each Parker could defray. Before the police inaugurate further nonsense in the name of order, the advantages of such a planned parking space should be considered...
...affairs of Tammany Boss Richard Croker. Four years ago Student Smith entered the University of Colorado at Boulder. For part of his expenses he got loans from Boulder banks on the strength of a verbal agreement, later confirmed in writing, by which he claimed his father had agreed to defray them. Student Smith also helped support himself by waiting on table, tending furnaces. Tall and heavyset, he became captain of the Colorado football team, a popular figure in college social life. But between Lawyer Smith and Student Smith relations became strained. Last fortnight Student Smith sued for his college expense...
...formal opening of the Bicentennial celebration this month. The painters worked without pay; the Government had appropriated only enough money to cover the actual hanging of the murals. Last week, when the paintings were all but finished, the patriotic painters, already heavily out of pocket, had to defray the cost of moving their own pictures from New York to Washington. Eleven of the paintings were sent to Washington in a truck, the rest to follow later by express...