Word: repaid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...veterans of the war are no longer proud of America. One of these veterans, writing in a recent issue of Collier's Weekly, has demanded to know what kind of recompense this isolation is for the immense sacrifice that they made. How in fact have these veterns been repaid? By promises of a bonus which a large number of them do not want, and by leaving Europe to create another war out of the turmoil of the last, a war into which America will be drawn as inevitably as it was in 1916. While the government is apparently awaiting...
...race will rouse considerable interest and that Ray is quite likely to establish a new record, if given a fast track and good weather conditions, can not be doubted. Clearly too the Athletic Association has acted magnanimously in inviting Ray to attempt the record once again; it will be repaid by the interest of the baseball game crowd and of those who purchase the special tickets. It is at least questionable, however; whether any athletic event in which the center of attraction is non-collegiate can be appropriate during Commencement week. The week is devoted to college life and college...
...Interior had effected a saving of 512,000,000 lire. ¶The parliamentary committee of investigation of war contracts issued its second report. It was stated that many firms were paid for goods that were never delivered, that some bills were paid twice, that many companies never repaid capital loaned by the State. In all, the committee estimated that many million lire are owed to the country. One of the worst offenders, according to the report, is the Ansaldo Company of Genoa, which owes the State 89,000,000 lire for shipping charges...
...money all that a prize entails. It is hardly a disgrace to have one's name in the catalogue as winner of a prize; and some of the awards even include medals lest the winner feel his labor insufficiently repaid...
...must remove", he said, "any situation which is likely to keep America out of the Genoa conference". Stating that the discussion of the enforcement of the debts owed the United States by the Allied Powers was a serious obstacle, he eloquently declared that these Powers had more than repaid the United States in blood, and therefore urged that the following resolution be added to the original: "Further resolved: That the discussion of cancellation of debts should in no way be an impediment to the United States being represented at the Genoa Conference". This resolution was adopted by the meeting...