Word: redeem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football who has an inclination to play it, in order to carry out the Harvard policy. President Lowell does not go to the heart of the subject as does President Faunce, but the President of Harvard labors under one great disadvantage. The desire among the undergraduates to see Harvard redeem itself under the tuition of Coach Horween is probably much stronger than the will to reform football--New York Times...
...What may redeem Tom is his own first sentence, the generalization: "All men are blowhards." But how far removed from Huck's amiable unmorality is all this Tom-talk of moral credit. How strange that two products of like environments should see things so differently in retrospect. How odd that Huck the outcast should write with such contentment while Tom the respected citizen has loathing in his memory and joy, strident because vicarious, only in perfections yet to be. Both the books are written for middle-aging people. Who shall say which is wiser...
...purchases eight kisses from Mrs. Amaranth at his own church bazaar. Thenceforward it is but a step until the glittering and ever competent Arthur Byron, this time a scheming Senator, gold digs "the Governor" successfully- using Miss Starr as his spade. Skilful acting by almost all hands does not redeem an unskilful script...
...spirit of Christ and of the Gautama?might have more faith in God, and not be so fearful of their little brand of religion being overturned by tolerance toward other faiths. Intolerance will never make the world Christian, but sympathetic understanding of God-likeness wherever we find it will redeem the world. DRYDEN L. PHELPS...
...Zimmermann, perhaps the most celebrated of Dutch fiscal experts, was present at Geneva last week, was warmly congratulated upon his achievements in stabilizing the schilling, balancing the Austrian budget, administering with sage economy the $126,000,000 loan floated to redeem Austria from national bankruptcy (TIME, Sept...