Word: pay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people talked any longer of a threat of depression; the relatively minor damage done by the spring recession seemed to have reassured most of the doubters. The sight of smoking factory stacks and the feel of cash in the weekly pay envelope had been habit forming; rightly or wrongly, millions seemed to feel that there was such a thing as looking too hard for a worm in the apple...
...Democrats seized the chance to launch a new principle: "The forces of government were directed, not to the restoration of business alone, but toward the rehabilitation of the suffering and destitute of the entire nation . . . Having no public domain to give away and no other government assets, it would pay for all this by taking money away from those who had it, mainly from Republicans and Big Business, and giving it to those who needed...
Scott journeyed to native encampments on the wild thornbush plains. He bumped over rough motor tracks, got lost in deserts, sat with chiefs and councillors and took down their words. The tribesmen deputized him to speak for them to the outside world, sold some of their cattle to pay for his trips to sessions...
...relocation of population during the recent partition of India, refugee students are short on housing and medical care. This condition curtails their ability to pay basic educational expenses...
Does college education for women pay? Do women actually benefit in later life from a college education? Ninety nine percent of 30,000 women college graduates, questioned by the American Association of University women, think...