Word: redeeming
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...Independence Day), as it does on New Year's Day and May 25 (May Revolution Day), the Banco returned without charge the sewing machines, typewriters, plumber's wrenches and carpenter's tools which Argentina's poor had pawned and were still too poor to redeem...
Operated under stringent federal laws, the pawnshop avoids taking in stolen goods by registering borrowers' identification cards and fingerprints with police headquarters. Proceeds from the sale of pawned goods go to the borrower, less what he owes and a 10% commission. Borrowers, if unable to redeem pledges, must be notified in time to attend auctions...
...costumes and equipped with a few new inventions, including a collection box that comments on the offerings, the Perfect Fool guides the show insanely from act to act. Wynn is not at his funniest in Laugh, Town, Laugh, but he is funny enough; and his embarrassed giggles help to redeem his most embarrassing gags...
...class in particular. It is a classצr, more essentially, a state of being—which Herbert George Wells loathes (not without pity) with the aching contempt of familiarity. He springs from it. Wells feels the same aching contempt for 'Teddy" Tewler. But like all crusaders, he longs to redeem the thing he loathes. This novel is a fictional prelude to redemption. Its purpose: to show Teddy Tewler as a total horror, so that other Teddies and their well-wishers may be shocked, if they are not inspired, to reform...
...environmental? If the former, the end of man (thanks to the appalling power of human ingenuity) is not far off Another war or two will do it, if this one fails. But if, as Wells believes, Homo Tewler is a bundle of terribly conditioned reflexes, then he is redeemable. First however, he must discard his mental and social shackles, do the two things he is conditioned never to do: listen to reason and quit being careful. The same instruments, Wells argues, which have made Tewlers what they are—and the world what it is—can also make the world...