Word: defrayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden trip and sunk with the loss of 1500 lives. The British Government invited the nations of the world to a conference held at London where an agreement was drafted and later signed by which all the powers agreed to help defray the expenses of an International Ice Patrol in proportion to their respective shipping...
This spread, at which an excellent menu will be served, will be as always open to all members of the University. The defray the expenses of the spread tickets costing $1.25 will be necessary to gain admittance. There are at present on sale at the Phillips Brooks House...
Generous, the Government at Rome offered to defray the entire expense of building an electric railway from the nearest Italian junction to the frontier of San Marino. Surely, said Il Duce's agents last week, surely the Grand Council would cooperate in this great scheme of progress by appropriating the cost of completing the railway from the frontier straight in to the Borgo? Any other course would be to fly in the face of Providence, to refuse a generous offer, to antagonize the whole teeming sea of Italy above which San Marino rises like a silent islet...
...Crozier '18, Associate Professor of General Physiology, to pay the salary of an assistant and to defray expenses incurred in an investigation on the nature of central nervous processes...
...Plucknett '22, Assistant Professor of Legal History, for two years, to defray expenses of research incurred preliminary to the publication of the Year Books of the Reign of Richard...