Word: scrape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Rowlandson of London. He had debts that must be paid at once. On a £50,000 life insurance policy, relic of a happier day, he had already borrowed nearly £7,000. And, worst of all, his policy would lapse entirely unless he could rake and scrape together £1,500 to pay an overdue premium by 3 o'clock one afternoon last fortnight...
...following will soon find himself a victim of acute financial anxiety. He will need that sum to pay his tuition, his room & board and incidentals and there will not be a cent left for clothing, travel or amusement. If he plans to join a fraternity he will have to scrape up an additional $100 or $150. And if he is going to live like his other classmates at Dartmouth, he will find by next June that his outlay has been in the neighborhood of $1,700-highest in the land...
...properly impressed with the obsequies, but it soon becomes evident that his death is not the boon to his family he had hoped. His $50,000 insurance does not prevent Mrs. Trent's being suspected of murder, does not help his daughter out of an extra-marital scrape. But ghostly Bill keeps wandering around and praying, finally sets things to rights...
...understand thoroughly how the system of concentration has evolved, one must consider what the demands of education are today. Is it as useful for the student to scrape the surface of knowledge, even though the general grasp appears most important to him, as it is for him to gain a fairly workable ground-work of some specific field? Undoubtedly, the most important element gained from a college education is the method of thinking which enables the student to get immediately to the crux of a problem. The ordinary graduate faces detailed and intricate questions which he must be able...
...converted part of the money to his personal use-did not report it because he could not account for its spending. Next day the Bishop took a greater interest in proceedings. His own attorney pictured him a martyr who had spent every cent he could make and scrape together to defeat Smith and Rum, who could easily have reported spending the whole $65,300 but had not done so because it would have been deceptive to report $48,000 spent in Virginia by a local organization. When Attorney McNeill pictured him as a man of unshakable courage the Bishop smiled...