Word: redeem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian approach to the problem is unique, for it asserts that the crux of the problem is not man's finiteness-the qualities that make him one with the brute creation-but man's sin. It is not from the paradox that Christianity seeks to redeem man; it is from, the sin that arises from the paradox. It is man who seeks to redeem himself from the paradox. His efforts are the stuff of history. Hence history, despite man's goals of goodness, proliferates...
...clock the basketball team will face in most important test. Scene of the action will be the Boston Arena, and if this evening's contest even comes close to matching the last two Harvard-Yale games in the St. Botolph Street ice palace, it may almost redeem a particularly frustrating season...
Meanwhile, René Mayer's economic window-smashing had bewildered and frightened Frenchmen. Prices of oranges, chickens, beans, eggs skittered nervously upward. Many a thrifty soul with a sockful of 5,000-franc notes spent an anxious two days before he learned that the government would redeem his notes in full-if he could prove that he came by them legally. Said a Paris policeman: "This is a bitter pill, but we will have to swallow it. Let's hope it will save France...
...atmosphere; perhaps Kaye's species of facial-contortions-and-mouth-noises humor has begun to be rather tedious; perhaps slapstick is still, as always, a poor substitute for wit. Or perhaps the five dream-episodes, (three from the original story), funny as they may be, just don't completely redeem a routine "comedy-mystery"--routine even to the extent of including Boris Karloff...
...parity law (TIME, Apr. 15, 1946) provides that if wheat falls to $1.89, the Government will start support-buying. If a farmer needs cash, the Government will lend him about $1.80 a bushel and impound his wheat in a federal granary. If the price rises, he can redeem the wheat and sell it at the increased price. Last week, a total of 20.5 million bushels, more than twice as much as last year, was impounded by such loss-proof gambling...