Word: repays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay. It conferred upon me the mission to administer America's response to the appeal of afflicted nations during the War. It has called me into two Cabinets of two Presidents. By these experiences I have observed the burdens and responsibilities of the greatest office in the world. That office touches the happiness of every home. It deals with the peace of nations. No man could think of it except in terms of solemn consecration...
...there you have it. If you think you can be amused (which we were) by Mitzi's impersonation of a little girl injected with a few good cracks, an evening at the Shubert will repay you. If you are a Scollay Square aesthete, or a devotee of Max Reinhardt, you will probably be more contented at home...
...England. True also that the 60 signers did not have enough influence to cause Mr. Arliss to resign from Equity. Yet it must have been painful for Mr. Arliss to realize that some at least of his ungrateful confreres would go far into the past and repay kindness with spite in the foolish effort to requite their grudge against his country...
Senator Borah with his characteristic "set the world on fire" spirit has undertaken more than he can finish. His great campaign to redeem the fair name of the Republican Party has netted a mere twentieth of the sum necessary to repay Mr. Sinclair for his donation to the "Keep Cool with Coolidge" camgaign...
...exclusive of state institutions. The solution for the self-supporting student is in a highly developed loan fund system and increasing service and efficiency in personnel and employment bureaus. A college education is supposed to endow the average man with an adequate earning capacity which would enable him to repay a long term loan at a reasonable rate of interest. The injustice under such a system would be negligible and would enable the universities to be in a degree, at least, self-supporting them selves...