Word: payed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citizen's Reward. In Columbus, Ga., after civic-mindedly cropping the two-year growth of grass which had been hiding a fireplug, Horace Gordon was the first to pay a $6 fine for parking near the newly exposed hydrant...
...Medina Cram Course. At Columbia Law School, unrelenting effort began to pay off. At the end of his second year he passed his bar examination, married Ethel Hillyer of East Orange, N.J., and set up housekeeping on a $1,500 gift from his father. When he graduated, Ethel, through a friend, got him a job as law clerk at $8 a week in the office of Manhattan Attorney Charles Tuttle. He supplemented that by teaching law at Columbia, and began his "cram courses" for bar examinations which were to become famous in New York legal circles. Nearly...
Proceeds from weekly bingo games, held in church basements and hired halls, have helped pay for parochial schools, for school buses, for Catholic charities. Republican Governor Alfred Driscoll, up for reelection, was on record against the game. Said Driscoll: "Some people characterize bingo as a harmless pastime. I say it is gambling, and has been known to be run at times by gangsters and racketeers." His Democratic opponent, Elmer H. Wene, who is backed by Frank Hague, the dethroned boss of Jersey City, said he saw nothing wrong with bingo...
...Washington, the State Department heard that a messenger from Canton had been sent to Europe, with a suitcase full of back pay for Chinese diplomats...
...opened to questions from the floor. The first query was, what percentage of Coop purchases are made by members? "Seventy-two to seventy-eight percent," answered Mr. Cole, and then, as an obiter dictum, divulged what he called "the Great Mystery of the Harvard Cooperative Society:" why some people pay a dollar to join and then buy only five cents of goods...