Word: repay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went into a bank to borrow money for the development of a newspaper enterprise, I would not say: ' I will pay what interest 1 please, I will give such security as I think best and I will repay when I feel like it.' If I did, I wouldn't get the money."?William Randolph Hearst, discoursing on the recognition of Mexico and on the problem of how Mexico is to borrow needed capital...
...That 200 of the remainder be set aside as a reserve and that a "given number" of these be equipped with Diesel engines instead of oilburning equipment. This would improve their efficiency by 25% and make it possible soon to repay money borrowed from the Shipping Board's construction loan fund...
...settles down to decide the fate of nations or debate the tariff question no one ever hears of it. And as for reading the newspapers--if he does he merely learns of his own idiosyncrasies, and if he doesn't, he misses very little. Possibly three or four newspapers repay him for his efforts to find the news with some adequate content. In the rest, he delves between Raymond's advertisements--quite the most amusing feature usually and Zonite, to discover at last that the Yale sophomores have presented the freshman with an ancient and, doubtless, honorable fence...
...Clarke suggests that such a fund be used to relieve the labor shortage by bringing men over from the northern European countries, particularly Great Britain and Germany, where unemployment and economic conditions are bad. Arrangements could be made with the individual workmen to repay the cost of passage...
...diplomatic police protection. It is, therefore, futile for the Bolsheviki to accuse the Swiss of negligence. Conradi had a personal grievance against the Communists of Russia. His father and uncle were the victims of Bolsheviki cruelty. He therefore acted on the principle of " Vengeance is mine; I will repay! " And he did repay. There seems nothing of international importance attached to the unfortunate and regrettable death of M. Vorovsky...