Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world expect the German people to be content with existing conditions? On the contrary there is reason for wondering that the German people bear their terrible distress so calmly and with such discipline. ... A country treated for 13 years as a pariah by the outside world simply had to forfeit the respect of its own people...
...rent for $1,000 a year, taxes are $32.25, steak is 34¢ a lb.). Denverites drink bad whiskey and gin, little beer. Water is precious yet Denver wastes it. Says the Water Board: "Once you get hold of a flow of water, if you don't use it you forfeit it to someone who will." Last week, however, citizens were allowed to water their lush, green lawns for only three hours in the evening, one side of the street watering one day, the opposite side the next...
...Roxy cinema palace in Manhattan, last week closed for three weeks. Lavish stage shows had failed to attract the weekly $75,000 necessary for profit. When it reopens, less lavishly, its 5,920 seats will be outnumbered by International Music Hall's 6,000-odd. It may forfeit the name of Roxy to another of the Rockefeller Center theatres...
...previously agreed share. This would be fiduciary currency guaranteed by the Allies to have the same par value as gold. Each nation could deposit in a central bank a bond equal to the value of her share of reparations. Should any nation attempt to discount this currency she would forfeit her bond. With the first allotment of this currency, each nation would agree to purchase silver. This silver would replace the original guarantee bond, which would be retired immediately, leaving the silver as a bond to function in its place. This money could be called 'Leagues,' with the identification...
Election deposits of ?150 each (forfeit if the candidate receives less than ^ of the votes in his division) were made by 1,286 candidates; by James Ramsay MacDonald in extraordinary fashion. Proffering three 20,000 mark pre-War German banknotes, the Prime Minister called out loudly: "Each of these notes was once worth a thousand pounds-one thousand pounds! Will you take them all as my deposit...