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Word: pay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepared to leave the country, Philip assured his hosts that the Queen herself would be coming out in 1961 to pay a postponed visit. Though the thought was delicately left unspoken, everyone knew that by then Ghana would probably be the Commonwealth's third republic, recognizing Elizabeth, as India and Pakistan do, not as Queen but merely as symbolic head of the Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: A Royal Visitor | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...costs of "conveniencing" foods can be considered the expense of maid service. Says Charlie Mortimer: "If you compute the relative costs of the two types of meals versus the time spent by the housewife, the housewife is getting the services of a maid for 45? an hour. My sons pay teen-age baby sitters more than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Just Heat & Serve | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

House funds, largely money from the Ford Foundation, will pay for the festival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy Will Present House Arts Festival | 12/4/1959 | See Source »

...college football did not have enough to battle in student apathy, television, and high expenses, the University would be inviting more trouble by renting the Stadium to professionals. Fans who have no emotional attachment to Harvard football would much rather pay about $1.50 on a Sunday (the pros generally price tickets on a sliding scale) for the same seat that costs $4-$5 on a Saturday (Harvard, like most colleges, has a uniform rate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and the Professionals | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

...with the draft card had told Freshmen he was 19. He told the police he was 22. In the same dorm he said that he had previously been working at three cents a week to pay off the orphanage, now in Indiana, for the money it had spent raising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orphans' Selling Campaign Ends With Arrest in Yard | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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