Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since team sports are almost wholly restricted to college years and largely abandoned in later life in favor of golf, tennis and squash, early preparation along these lines will repay the individual many times over. When one remembers that the University can be represented every bit at ably by means of non-organized athletics the incentive should prove strong to turn to the courts or the swimming pool rather than blindly follow the herd onto the grid-iron or the hockey-rink. Organized athletics are normally and naturally the corner-stone of Harvard's outdoor life, but it cannot...
...sports event was a Cleveland Negro named Jesse Owens. No. 1 heroine, with the possible exception of Mrs. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, because she was not allowed to compete, was a Fulton, Mo., filly named Helen Stephens. The Olympic Games had produced eight deaths, innumerable misunderstandings, enough revenue to repay all running expenses and part of what it would otherwise have cost Germany for barracks for 4,000 soldiers, the best sports arena in the world. Events...
...profits not distributed as dividends: 7% on the first 10% of total profits retained; 12% on the next 10%; 17% on the next 20%; 22% on the next 20% ; 27% on the last 40%. Banks, insurance companies, corporations under contract to pay no dividends and corporations under contract to repay indebtedness out of current revenue will be exempt from this undistributed profits...
...magazines and travel agencies have lavished on a colony of luxury hotels perched on the rim of an extinct volcano in the desert 125 miles from Los Angeles. The narrative concerns the efforts of Joan Smyth (Frances Langford) to snare a rich husband (David Xiven) in order to repay her father (Sir Guy Standing) for his sacrifices in earning a living as a gambler to provide her with the luxuries of a fashionable school. She ends by marrying Slim (Smith Ballew), owner of a dude ranch...
...Foreign Policy: It might repay all of us to read Washington's Farewell Address again...