Word: redeem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junior varsity football team, winless in four starts this fall, gets a last chance to redeem itself against Yale this afternoon in New Haven...
...effect, all men's pride and self-love. Camus seems to abandon his view of man as a Rousseauistic innocent trapped in the vise of the human condition, and almost adopts the metaphysics of original sin. The irony is that sin without God to redeem it is just as unbearable as a world without God to explain...
...America's first peer started life "Dressin of skins for briches & glovs," would probably never have grown too big for his briches had he not spent every penny of his savings buying up U.S. "Continentals" and state securities-and harvesting a fortune when the infant Congress decided to redeem such "trash." Yankee Trader Dexter's finest feats included selling 42,000 warming pans and cargoes of mittens to the warm West Indies and, on the solemn advice of a practical joker, shipping a large quantity of coal to Newcastle. The warming pans were used as ladles...
...curse of Satanas. Whence poverty, invasions, the Bourbons, Jesuits, cholera and all the ills that afflict the spirit and the flesh. And then you ask me: Why do they leave? Are they not content here? I tell you: No. And no government-as distinguished from Christ -can ever redeem them...
Market letters earned a sour reputation for themselves in the 1920s and '30s-and have done little to redeem it. In those days, brokers used the letters to push sales of the securities they handled, loaded them with glib predictions and tips on questionable stocks. According to a 1933 survey by the Cowles Commission for economic research, 1928-32 forecasts of how certain stocks would perform were actually 4% less accurate than if the choices had been made at random from the list. Eleven years later a similar survey by the commission found that accuracy had improved hardly...