Word: pay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reader in Norfolk, Va. asked if we could put him in touch with a subscriber in a country which grows teakwood. He wanted his favorite set of chessmen duplicated in teakwood, and he was willing to pay the cost of the project in TIME subscriptions. We gave him the name of a college student in India who had written us that he wanted very much to subscribe to TIME but couldn't afford it. Later on we hope to hear that they made a deal...
...ahead and draw on him for what I needed." Altogether Clifford was about $25,000 in debt to him. A man of Clifford's connections and ability would probably have no difficulty making $100,000 a year as a Washington lawyer: many a prince of privilege would presumably pay gladly for his services...
...scheduled airlines' safest years, with 1.2 deaths per 100 million passenger miles. Every speaker at the luncheon sidestepped the ugly word "crash" until hard-bitten Eddie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines, got up, threw away his prepared text and adlibbed: "Crashes are the price you pay for motion...
Government agents had kept watch on merchants' prices, had set rents at a modest $44 a month for a five-room house (including heat), had fended off crime, slums and commercialized sin. And Richlanders didn't even have any local taxes to pay: the Government made up the annual million-dollar deficit...
...What's more," Metcalf said, "I don't believe that Radcliffe could ever afford to pay us the costs necessary to admit girls to Lamont without completely dismantling the Radcliffe Library. Such a situation would be impossible, anyway," Metcalf added, because Lamont is designed to accommodate "a peak Harvard load and nothing more...