Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard education places a unique responsibility on the graduate, White feels, explaining his reasons for accepting the demanding post. "For those of us who have had the good fortune to inherit or acquire substantial means," he says, "this campaign presents the best opportunity we will ever have to repay our debt for having been started on the road with a full...
...series of five-year plans to raise donations from graduate editors to repay the loan is being planned. Samuel H. Ordway '21, chairman of the magazine's board of trustees, discussed the Advocate's financial difficulties at the yesterday's ground-breaking ceremony...
...Ph.D. thesis at Yale in 1933, it was far from accepted doctrine. Bankers sat on their funds, lent only on the highest-grade collateral. Meredith began developing the idea that, instead of looking mainly to collateral, the loanmakers should consider a man's job and his ability to repay. A mortgage, he argued, is not just a lien on property, but "instead is a means of raising the standard of living...
...carnival near Rome, however, their ways are interrupted by a clown who ridicules the brute constantly. While the strong man is in jail for an attempt to repay his tormenter with a knife, the clown tries to persuade the girl to leave her gorilla. Her refusal brings a philosophic reversal of his argument: he shows her that she is necessary to her owner and is fulfilling as important a place in the scheme of things as anyone else. The thought delights the girl, and she rejoins her man. But after a subsequent chance meeting in which the brute beats...
...visit was a surprise to Tito, and from the way he and his comrades acted, an embarrassing surprise. On his visit to the Soviet Union last June, Tito casually invited Khrushchev to repay the visit at some future, unspecified date. Far sooner than Tito & Co. expected, Khrushchev suddenly accepted, and one day last week landed at Zemun airport, to be greeted by Tito and a few retainers. Newsmen were barred, and were left only to wonder at the timing and the intent of Khrushchev's arrival...