Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred: "Oh, yes. Very pleasant while it lasted. I dreamt you paid the ten dollars...
Lamont workmen used blowtorches. Mayor Curley used MIT's flame, throwers, Boston used every available street cleaner and a condescending reporter from the Globe. The railroads used well-paid volunteers from Harvard...
...Washington, General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold paid a call on Harry Truman, cocked a snappy hat over his eye, and went off to shoulder his responsibilities as the newly elected president of the California Fish & Game Commission (salary, none; expense allowance, $10 a day for not more than five days a month...
...Olympics at St. Moritz, Switzerland. But Prague's newspapers burned up a month's supply of flash bulbs photographing her on ice; even the Communist Rude Pravo shunted the Greek civil war to an inside page. At the finale, the 12,000 spectators, many of whom had paid scalpers' prices for tickets, cheered hard for "Scottova...
...years that Ohio's little Baldwin-Wallace College has been going. Though run by Methodists, it welcomed students of all faiths: its chapel was compulsory but nonsectarian, and one of every ten of its students was a Roman Catholic. One day recently a Catholic coed paid a visit to neighboring St. John's College. She was worried. Was it proper, she asked a Catholic professor, for her to take the compulsory philosophy of religion course at Baldwin-Wallace...