Word: repays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the Business School is advancing $450,000 to 395 men, approximately 35 per cent of the student body. About half of this amount was in loans. The rest was awarded as advances-in-aid, for which a student assumes a moral commitment to repay when he can. The advances-in-aid made this year will come back again to serve the same purpose eventually as part of a revolving fund...
...after he retired from his $6,000-a-year professorship, Papa Miller threw himself into a strange hobby. "Everything I have," he once told his lawyer, "I received from the university, and I want to repay my obligation." And so, knowing nothing at all about business...
Granted, Eisenhower had an obligation to Byrnes for the Governor's efforts in his behalf during the campaign. Political debts are inescapable, and to succeed in the game one must repay them. But this was not the way to pay this one. An appointment as Mutual Security Administrator or even a cabinet post might have been in order, but picking him for the UN job was not unlike choosing Colonel Robert M. McCormick as Ambassador to Britain...
...three months ago the Bolivian government, keenly aware that the U.S. (the world's biggest tin consumer) would refuse to buy Bolivia's tin unless some fair plan was worked out to repay the stockholders, announced an agreement insuring compensastion. On sales of tin at prices between $1.06 and $1.21½ a Ib., 5% of revenues will go toward compensation claims; between 90? and $1.05. Bolivia will set aside 2½%, between 80? and 89?, 1%, and below 80?, nothing. Even at that, it will take investors a long time to get their money. Current New York price...
...currently living with her second husband's family (Sasser himself lives elsewhere). Pfc. Dixon, who was released a week ago, has announced that "I'll see about the situation when I get home." Meanwhile, the Veterans Administration is trying to decide whether or not Mrs. Dixon must repay the $10,000 G.I. insurance which she collected after Dixon's reported death...