Word: repays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state and municipal bonds were issued for $1,399,637,992 last year ($1,398,953,100 in 1924 )†. Remaining deficits came from short term borrowings. In general, municipal securities are safe. Some accident of prosperity seems always to occur to make new borrowings possible, if only to repay old ones...
...Treasury set out to combat Franco-British propaganda against "U. S. debt Shylocking" by announcing over Mr. Mellon's signature: 1) that under the Mellon-Berenger agreement, if and when ratified, France will repay a sum roughly equivalent to only her post-War borrowings from the U. S., and may therefore be said to have been forgiven her War debt entire; 2) that "England borrowed a large proportion of its debt to us for purely commercial, as distinguished from War, purposes to save borrowing from its own people." (i. e. Britain deserves no cancellation of these "commercial" camouflaged...
...longer afford to accept the negative testimony that a boy has submitted himself to instruction and has led a life free from obvious iniquity. If college is to train boys for service, we must require positive evidence that our candidates are probably good material who will be likely to repay by future service to the community, the large outlay the college makes to educate them...
...came boldly. Withal in the back of his mind was memory of distress. On his previous visit in 1921 and 1922 the U. S. medical profession had thrown such obloquy over him that for a time his good humor became only a mask. He had come to repay with his surgical skill the protection and aid U. S. munificence had afforded Austrian War-emaciated children. His method of correcting congenital deformity of the hip was "bloodless," that is, he did not use the knife. His procedure was scientific, although it differed from that of Dr. Edward Hickling Bradford,* surgeon, orthopedist...
...starter, and to have proposed that the residual 500 million pounds ($2,430,000,000) should be repaid to them in equal yearly installments over 62 years, i. e., a flat annuity of slightly over 8 million pounds ($38,880,000). The Italians allegedly replied by offering to repay a total of ap- proximately 250 million pounds (half the British demand), in yearly annuities of 4 million pounds...