Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paid his respects to the memory of Gandhi (by sitting patiently through a 65-minute service at which Novelist Pearl Buck contrasted Gandhi's principle of non-violence with that of the "stupid men" who created the atom bomb) and to the memory of Lincoln (by driving to the Lincoln Memorial, watching two aides place a wreath at the foot of the Emancipator's statue...
...activities of theater groups. The charges are certainly legitimate; they could well he expected to be the same in any commercial theater. But the University seems only too determined to exact its pound of flesh. The bills are presented in a business-like fashion, and are expected to be paid promptly. If a play flops, the bills are still there, clamoring for payment just as loudly as bills of outside establishments...
...Henry IV, Part One," for instance, HTW barely broke even, and yet the play drew large crowds for each performance. For services connected with the use of Sanders, the Workshop had to pay the University about $560. If the play had been a failure financially, HTW couldn't have paid its bills. And apparently, University aid in such a dilemma would not leap forth...
Dealing with UNESCO's aims, its operational techniques, and what the average student can do to make it work, Bok's speech was entitled "UNESCO and You." He encouraged student cooperation with the organization and pointed out its need for more efficient, highly-paid...
Those with small sums were paid off at once in smaller bills. Big accounts were frozen; how or when they will be paid off, Mayer has not decided. At week's end, Mayer estimated that all of the 330 billion worth of 5,000-franc notes, one third of all currency outstanding, had been turned in or destroyed, and much water squeezed out of the currency inflation...