Word: repaying
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...well aware that some ministers are offering to release guilty souls from their pledges in return for much smaller offerings. Some of his most fiery recriminations are reserved for these "racketeering preachers" who question his healings and seek to undermine his message to the faithful: that God will doubly repay whoever gives without limit...
...strange that Harvard has no real student center? That it does almost nothing to repay the community for its land, its poverty...
...Georgetown College in Kentucky has borrowed $3,756,000 in federal funds for dormitory construction, and recently received a loan from Washington for a new science building. The college got around its dilemma by keeping separate sets of books for funds received from denominational and private donors. The trustees repay Washington from private funds, permitting them to claim that the church itself has stayed clear of involvement with Government money. The Rev. J. T. Miller, president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, smilingly explains that the college has thus solved its financial problems "by beating the devil around the stump...
...Idaho-based Boise Cascade Corp., sells $4,750 prefab packages to Alabama and Louisiana farm laborers under a little-known self-help loan program of the Farmers Home Administration. Kingsberry's customers pay only $100 down, save money by erecting the homes themselves, and have 33 years to repay the 4% loans. Most of them formerly occupied plantation shacks that lacked even such basic amenities as running water...
...Jews than sins against life itself. Such sins, he observes, are atonable, if at all, only in heaven-and only through a sense of guilt. The Germans, he believes, feel none. "How is it possible for them to make good again?" he asks. "The dead they can't repay. The dead family without an heir they can't repay. If they'd managed to kill every member of every family, they'd have nothing to repay...