Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several hundred copies in my basement ? I can give them away ... or better, solicit TIME'S help, among its readers, for a better, more profitable method of disposition. Is there some rich, retired seaman, or world-traveler, who would like an index of all these books, willing to pay for them, ship them to some far away place...
Ferdinand Alfonsi did die, of arsenic poisoning. So did one Philip Ingrao, 18. So, the Government contended, did at least ten other Philadelphians, whose grasping relatives had insured them for a total of nearly $100,000, and given Herman Petrillo the job of making the policies pay out. Thoroughly professional, Mr. Petrillo, said witnesses, shopped around for cheap killers, worked not only with arsenic but with sandbags, faked hit-&-run accidents, a lead pipe so ingeniously designed that it could bash in a skull to look as if the victim had fallen downstairs...
...movement that is politically so appealing as to capture both Sheridan Downey and Leverett Saltonstall cannot be ignored. Increase of retirement benefits and extension of the scope of recipients would do much, but the plan must be put permanently upon a reliable, pay-as-you-go basis. Eventually, the aged and dependent must be provided with a comprehensive program of old-age insurance, and it is generally recognized that the Federal government must provide at least a portion of the necessary funds. If so, time is of the essence, for calm, unemotional study is becoming progressively less and less possible...
During the past two months the Harvard Committee to Aid German Student Refugees, headed by Robert E. Lane '39, has received $11,000 from Harvard students and faculty members, and $2,300 from Harvard alumni, to pay for the living expenses of the refugee students while they attend the University. Last November the Harvard Corporation voted to establish twenty new scholarships of $500 each ($100 more than tuition fee) for qualified refugee students of any creed from Germany, provided that each scholarship be supplemented by contributions for living expenses to an amount equivalent to $500 raised by the Harvard undergraduate...
...sounds of strife grew louder and more intelligible, passengers perceived that the words "pay up" . . . dime . . . fare . . . tryin' to get away with something, huh? . . . No I didn't . . . paid before . . ." emanated at regular intervals from the conductor's sanctum...