Word: discount
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although many experts are inclined to discount wartime record-breakers, some are already comparing French-Canadian Maurice Richard with the incomparable Howie Morenz in speed, aggressiveness, accuracy, durability. Durable he certainly is, by any standard. Said he one afternoon last month: "I'm all tire out. Dis afternoon I move my partment bout tree block and can't get no truck. So my brudder and me we move everything. Don't depen' too much on me." That night he got five goals and three assists -a league scoring record...
...returned to Hollywood and to immediate offers from Warner, Lester Cowan, M.G.M. and David 0. Selznick. But Selznick alone met her terms-willing as she was to swap careers at a discount. He agreed to pay her $250 a week for the first six months, $350 (her present salary) for the second, plus an expense account which includes her clothes, a titanic item,* and everything else that has anything remotely to do with business...
International music circles, remembering Strauss's huge international royalties in the past, knowing him for a highly practical artist, were inclined to discount the heroism in his stubbornness. On the other hand, it was quite conceivable that the 80-year-old composer might have balked at riding the few remaining miles to music's Valhalla aboard the Nazi bandwagon...
...pipeline deal, so far only an "agreement in principle," provides that the Government will get its money back in 25 years of service charges, will also have a 50-year option on oil at a discount...
...eleven months; one patient is bedridden, requiring frequent doses of morphine; three patients have pain; one patient had painful urination and attacks of hematuria [bloody urine]; only three say they are improved after eleven, seven and three months respectively." (Procastration doctors say that Dr. Kretschmer is wrong to discount the initial improvement in his patients, even if it is short-lived...