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Word: repays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supports him, lives with him (in Manhattan) and tries un successfully to keep him away from liquor and out of trouble ; a girl who is in love with him and does her equally un complaining nurse's part; various people from whom he "borrows" money he will never repay, with whom he makes dates he never keeps or from whom he buys the liquor that is alternately his salvation, his personal devil and his end-all − all these people are seen only from Don Birnam's view; they are important only in so far as they reflect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Damnation | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Allies may pity Austria, but-as their leaders sternly said last fortnight-Austria has a debt to repay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Resurrection | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...only giving his time to help our country while using the bench in the park for his office, but I know for a fact many hundreds of men he has helped with college education without being reimbursed. He sent me to Europe for study-yet will not let me repay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...most cases, nations helped by the U.S. will be able to repay a substantial part of the bill by swapping their own surplus production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Feed Europe | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...after the war, Australia-from her 120 million sheep and millions of cattle-can supply us with wool and steaks . . .; she has a surplus of wheat and barley; all this can repay us and mutually increase both our standards of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 5, 1943 | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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