Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While such an outlay might be considered sufficient today, these famished Englishmen demanded something a little extra with each meal. Such things as white peacocks served with their feathers still remaining "to make them look alive" or rabbits adorned with corral beads upon their feet and silver bells hung from their necks were really considered "comme il faut" by the Emily Posts of that...
...ardently pro-Landon as the nearby Knoxville Journal, which three months ago got out of receivership with the help of Republican money. According to Publisher McDonald, he owes only $60,000 for the modern presses and equipment he has installed. Delivery of the enlarged Free Press requires no new outlay of funds. Publisher McDonald uses Groceryman McDonald's trucks...
...weight of numbers began to tell. Just before the British took Pretoria, the Transvaal capital. State Attorney Smut? robbed a bank of its Government funds, sent them off to safety. That nestegg of a half-million pounds kept the Boers going two years more, against England's outlay...
...methods of raising Bonus cash, the "united front" bill said not a word. But its authors asserted that it would require an immediate cash outlay of only about $1,000,000,000, instead of the expected $2,000,000,000. The Treasury could, they suggested, substitute a new issue of bonds for the half-billion dollars worth of Bonus certificates held by the U. S. Government Life Insurance Fund as security for veterans' loans. Holders of another half-billion dollars worth of certificates would, they guessed, choose to keep them for the sake of the new interest...
Napkins were the chief point of controversy on the Wellesley campus just before the holidays. The old system under which students supplied their own was pleasing no one. The College shied away from an extensive outlay for new linen napkins and at one time considered upping the tuition to cover the expense. An all-afternoon conference of College officials and student representatives led to the posting of the following notice...