Word: guaranteee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For Harvard debating, besides the enlargement of the audience, there is the noteworthy fact that the radio spreads the range of possible competition. Financial limitation has in the past prevented the University teams from meeting some desirable distant opponents. Under the old conditions many first-rate universities were unable to...
Then came to the Prime Minister another message from Lady Houston: ". . . The supremacy of English airmen can only be upheld by their entrance into the contest . . . and to show I am not to be daunted, I will guarantee the whole amount of ?100,000. . . ."
All this Scot MacDonald said in a very long, very cautious speech of optimistic tone. Keynote: "There will be reserved to the Governor General [representing the Crown in the new Indian Federation] only that minimum of special powers which is required to secure in exceptional circumstances the preservation of tranquillity...
Two years ago when such wise collectors as the sponsors of last week's memorial show were boosting the market price of Pascin's delicate and decadent women, a French firm placed him under a very liberal contract which gave him an income and a percentage of commissions...
No romantic, Major Bratt thinks the dollar is mightier than the pen. He believes the U. S. finally entered the War because U. S. Industry had become allied with the Entente; that "under these circumstances the patriotic associations were moved to induce America to enter the war and thereby guarantee...