Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thus with interest at 4% the sum was doubled by maturity. To this total for each veteran was then added 25%, for no stated reason, and in this amount adjusted service certificates were issued, for payment in 1945. Since 1925 bonus finance has been a matter of imaginative bookkeeping save for: 1) the payments made to the beneficiaries of veterans who have died, and 2) $1,500,000,000 paid to veterans who "borrowed" on their bonus certificates...
...splendid culminating scene between the cousins. The daughter, who believes her mother is merely an old maiden cousin and whose real attachment is to Delia, is about to marry. For the first time in the long jealous warfare between them. Delia relents, makes the daughter promise to save her last farewell kiss, before she goes on her honeymoon, for Charlotte...
...Automotive Engineers. "The best way to make the present day car ride easy," declared President Stout, "is to put a lot of weight in the back end. Four hundred pounds of cement in the back seat helps a lot, but if we can put the engine back there and save the weight of the cement we get a better ride, better traction and much more room available in the body of the vehicle. . . . This gives a much better art possibility for appearance than the old-type car. . . . Sweeping lines can be run clear from the front to the rear...
...Governor Moret packed up to leave last week, he found a crinkled prediction penned to him in high excitement four years ago by fox-bearded Montagu Collet Norman who is now in his 15th year as Governor of the Bank of England. "Unless drastic measures are taken to save it, the capitalist system throughout the civilized world will be wrecked within a year," wrote Governor Norman to Governor Moret in 1931. "I should like this prediction to be filed for future reference...
time, I don't see to save my soul; If 1 can't get a pardon, try me in a parole...