Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Antwerp zoo was sadly depleted. New York's comradely N. Y. Zoological Park shipped to Antwerp 325 birds and animals. Thus, when Dr. William Reid Blair, genial director of the Zoological Park, made a bid for the Buta okapi, the Belgian Government saw fit to repay past kindness by giving him to Dr. Blair at a price far below that offered. But the okapi did not immediately leave Buta. In view of the indifferent success a few zoos have had in keeping them, Dr. Blair decided to let his okapi become accustomed to civilization before moving...
...preferred shares of McVitie & Price at ?1 each. Three months later Prime Minister MacDonald successfully advised King George V to confer a baronetcy on Grant. In the House of Commons, His Majesty's Loyal Opposition rose savagely to suggest that the Prime Minister had done this to repay a private debt. Correspondence between the Laborite and the Tycoon was produced showing that the Prime Minister had argued for the maintenance of "his simplicity of habit," that Grant had argued that the Prime Minister should "save his strength for the nation." Touched by this proof of honest friendship, the Opposition...
...Remarkable in being built completely without Federal financial aid, the Golden Gate Bridge will repay its bondholders by tolls like those on San Francisco's other great bridge across the bay to Oakland. Last week, after six months' operation, 4,408,092 vehicles had crossed the Bay Bridge, yielding tolls of $2,575,500. Traffic has been so much greater than expected that the toll was cut from...
...that the History 1 faculty has been brought face to face with the fact that the Dizzy Dean at the Freshman Smoker had nothing to do with deans of University Hall, it might repay inquiry to discover how any responsible person could get such an idea of the men who administer the daily life of the college. For a man holding the position of dean must combine the executive ability to keep the wheels of industry rolling, the personal charm to inspire the confidence of students and outsiders with whom he comes in contact, and the intellectual outlook...
...Clem Hawley (Wallace Beery) is a likable small-town toper, whose worst sin is getting drunk with his crony, Al (Ted Healy), and Mrs. Hawley's hired girl. Young Clem Hawley (Eric Linden) is an obnoxious young bank clerk who steals his mother's savings to repay money embezzled from the till to buy summer ermine for a night club dancer. Ostracized by his wife and suspected of his son's theft, Old Clem Hawley shows what he is made of. He explodes his son's romance with the dancer, finds the money...