Word: repay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that sum himself. Year ago Slater was retried, released, awarded $30,000 government compensation for his long jail term. Last week Scot Doyle, still unable to collect his $1,500, remarked: "Slater is not a murderer but an ungrateful dog, and I think the Scottish nation should repay me." Prosperous, clad in voluminous plus-fours, smoking a fat cigar, Oscar Slater received newsgatherers in his suite at a large hotel in Brighton (Britain's Atlantic City). "I really can't repay," said...
...week, their doom of cream sauce deferred, while four of Gloucester's fleetest fishing schooners were racing inshore to settle old rivalries. Gloucester folk, proud of their schooners, enthusiastic about this race of the last genuine U. S. sailing ships, had donated $20,000 to recondition canvas and repay owners for lost fish. Thousands lined the shore to watch the stanch, full-rigged craft course twice around an 18-mile triangle into the harbor. In the first two races, gentle inshore winds were insufficient to drive the schooners to the finish within the time limit. In the third, little...
...Practical politics" demands that before the British Labor Government recognizes Soviet Russia, Moscow must give an air-tight pledge that any diplomats she may send into Britain will eschew Red propaganda. The British Liberals also insist on some sort of engagement that Soviet Russia will repay British holders of Imperial Russian bonds at least in part. Last week as Mr. Henderson sat down to chat with Comrade Dovgalevsky even professed optimists doubted whether Moscow would yield now on two points which she has so long refused to concede. Still it was a great, significant event that, with small Norway...
...giant investment trust for small-capital men. Theory: Let a workman take, for example, $200 to the proposed trust. For $200 he would be allowed to buy $500 worth of stock, borrowing the other $300 from a bank or subsidiary company, with his stock as collateral. He would then repay the $300 at the rate of $25 a month. Thus might small-capital men, instead of spending on the installment plan for radios, motors, refrigerators, invest in installments in sound "rich-men's" securities...
...handing you herewith check . . . for $2,781,158.30 . . . to repay in full to date with interest your investment in the securities of the Brooklyn Publishing Corp. [which controls the stock of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle], the Albany Press Co. (The Knickerbocker Press, Albany Evening News) and the Ithaca Journal-News...