Word: repaid
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...California," he glowed, "is the land of happiness. The ascent to 12,000 feet to cross the Rocky Mountains made us gasp for breath, but the descent at Reno, the rich and verdant oasis of divorce, and that over San Francisco Bay, the most beautiful of landscapes, repaid us for our mountain sickness...
...farmers are following the President's anti-inflation advice in at least one respect: paying off their debts. Last year farmers repaid $128,700,000 of loans, half of them before maturity...
...repaid through the mediation of Mr. Higgenbotham, frog & snake catcher, who happened to owe Mrs. Rawlings six dollars. One day he drove up with a trussed-up sow, asked Mrs. Rawlings if she wanted to buy a pig. "Now what I got figgered out is this. That sow there is worth six dollars. . . . I owe you six dollars. If Mr. Martin takes that sow, you've paid him and I've paid you. Now how about...
...Navy repaid in kind. In a single week (ending March 6), U.S. submarines in the western Pacific sank one big Jap destroyer, one large naval tanker; hit and "definitely put out of action" one Jap aircraft carrier, three cruisers. U.S. guns, torpedoes and bombs had sunk 138 Jap vessels to date, sunk or damaged 20 Japanese cruisers-almost half of Japan's known cruiser strength...
Seriously considered by Metropolitan Boston librarians three years ago, the New England Deposit Library was erected with funds supplied by the University which will be repaid by the corporation which is now the nominal owner, over a long-term period...