Word: repay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waiting will afford many jobs for those who need them, and may reduce the board rate appreciably. But again, it may be prejudicial to the democracy that the House Plan is meant to foster. It may be putting too many student into routine, time-consuming jobs that will not repay the energy spent in them. The possibility that NYA aid, if accepted by the University, could offer better jobs must also be considered...
Present Nazi rulers know that their people once bitten are twice shy. If Germans ever find their marks are worthless the Nazi regime may not long survive. So the Nazi Government, which has also run up an internal debt that it can scarcely hope to repay, this time has done so by forced loans and a thousand other expedients, but not by printing money. And yet Germans are beginning to have doubts about their money...