Word: render
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oberammergau. A model of German village life, its daily tasks, and its festivals will be something of a revelation to the stay-at-homes and to the annual Paris-in-a-day Americans as well. If the Passion Players are able to line their purses, they will at least render us some quittance and they will bear their treasure home to an unselfish cause...
...Most of the 48 Governors, whether Democrats or Republicans, are expected to do their bit in the $1,000,000 campaign which begins April 16. The Governor of Virginia is chairman of the Governors' committee. Despite the Democratic lien on the spellbinding words " Thomas Jefferson," the campaign is to render non-partisan honor to the memory of the author of the Declaration of Independence. "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness " belong to both parties or neither, runs the editorial comment...
...more often glowingly mentioned than accurately described. But three things might be said of it: it is technically practically flawless; it has beauty of color and vigorous line achieved with the fewest possible strokes; occasionally it fails in insight in spite of Sargent's far-famed "ability to render character." He is a marvelous ob- server of externals and sometimes- but not always-of inner truths about his sitters...
...blaming the fiasco on the Allies. The Reparations Commission reminded the German Government a short time ago that they were contravening the Treaty of Versailles by raising a loan without the authorization of the Allied Powers. The German press excoriates the Commission by saying that repeated indirect threats to render void the loan are responsible for the failure...
...Federal Trade Commission, which, acting under the organic law which created it, is gathering data tending to prove that unfair competitive ethods employed by sugar gamblers render them open to prosecution...