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Such a $20 pay increase could not be paid in cash, since now is no time for more consumer spending. The boys would get bonds which could not be transferred, but which the Government would redeem-with interest-beginning in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of Cassandra | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...wall, a musical chair that plays when rocked, a rattrap shaped like an egg beater (supposed to fool the rats, it fools instead the colored maid). He has also put the family into the business of making hamburgers saturated with vodka, landing the Old Man in jail. Wanting to redeem himself, the cousin attempts to psychoanalyze the race horse. His theory is that, having won her first race, she felt cheated when she found herself right back where she started from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...will crow again ("in the days of great persecution of the Jews, and of intestine wars") when Satan, soul nauseated by his triumphant corruption of the world, prays God to put an end to mankind. Since Gabriel's first cockcrow, seven Messiahs have done their miraculous best to redeem mankind. But their efforts only went to convince Donne in the 17th Century-and only go to reconvince Olson in the 20th-"that to save this world God Himself must needs be born into it; and even then He can but make it worthy to be destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...second game of the afternoon, Dudley is favored over a weakend Lowell eleven. Sparked by back Johnny Santosuoso, the Commuters hope to redeem themselves from their 0-0 tie with Eliot last week. Veterans Bill Murphy, Dean Morse, and Elmer Taylor, however, may succeed in pulling the Bellboy's out of last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Slated for Close Fight With Kirkland; Dudley Favored | 10/16/1940 | See Source »

...Texas Corp. saw its $60,000,000 issue of 3% bonds, postponed since May, snatched up, to redeem an equal amount of 3½% debentures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Out of Hiding | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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