Word: remit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the plan discussed by the Council and currently under investigation by a special committee either the University will buy material outright and use it for retrainees from the armed services, or else rent the furniture out and remit the money collected to the student in cash or war bonds...
...people, when they heard of it, received the speech with more than apathy-disappointment that they had not been asked for more. Their only real objection was that the cigaret tax would be tough on the Tommies, whose meagre service allowance ($2.80 a week, of which married men must remit half to their wives) was not enough for a packet a day as it was. By last week most Britons figured that they might lose everything even if Britain won, that they would surely lose everything if not; and they were prepared to devote much more than was asked...