Word: redeem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which released the balloon had connived with a pen-pal in Singapore to mail the letter, which he himself wrote. The prank-loving student felt the qualms of conscience and 'fessed up when his classmates collected a sum of money to send to the "Chinese old man" to redeem the balloon...
...mortgages, increase working capital, redeem sinking fund bonds and pay for some new construction, National Gypsum Co. filed a registration statement for $3,500,000 in debentures...
This is Mallinckrodt's big chance to redeem itself in Harvard eyes--not by raising its usual stink, but by helping the coming Fourth of July to go over with a bang. Let Mallinckrodt's explosives budget be increased greatly. Some of the $2.34 left over from the Nieman Fund might perhaps be sacrificed for this purpose. Or the Laboratory might lay off a man in the Department of Nauseating Odors, thereby saving over $1.39 in adjustable clothespins. With all this money at their disposal, Mallinckrodt should be able to get off a real killer of a firecracker...
...loss of prestige, it has made more certain that in the future the function of the chief executive will be separate from that of Congress. Moreover, by putting the President in a bad light, it has become expedient for him to administer the bill well, if only to redeem himself in the eyes of the nation; and for it to be expedient that the administrative agencies be reorganized well is the best assurance the nation could have that this will be done...
Afterwards, demanding a match with the winner of the Louis-Schmeling fight next September, irrepressible Max boasted: "I didn't quit, did I? I had to redeem myself and I did. Did Louis have Farr on the floor?* Did Braddock?* Well, Papa Baer...