Word: defray
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still etherial. Costa Rica, Salvador, and Honduras must give consent and grant rights similar to those bought from Nicaragua under President Wilson, before work can even be started. The suggested plan calls for the use of the Panama tolls, a million and a half dollars a month, to defray the cost of building; and the investment seem valuable particularly as the proposed route would shorten the time required from coast to coast by four or five days...
...five year period or ten dollars a year from each subscriber. To attain this, many men should give more than the desired quota, but those who feel that they cannot reach that amount need not hesitate to subscribe less. The interest on the invested fund will be used to defray the expenses of annual gatherings at Commencement, for reunions and for the printing of the Secretary's reports...
...Committee voted that a dividend be given to colleges taking part in last year's outdoor meet and having to come a considerable distance to Cambridge. A sum of $5000 will be available for this purpose from the profits of the meet, and will help to defray the expenses of mileage. In order to benefit by this dividend, a college must have had at least ten competitors in the meet...
...money is used to defray the expenses of the activities of the Phillips Brooks House Association. It will cover the expenses of the social service work, next summer's daily Bible class for Cambridge children, the Information Bureau, the Freshman Bible, the Class Day spread, and the Thanksgiving and Christmas entertainments for men who are unable to get home for the holidays. It will also provide for Christmas presents for the poor families in Cambridge and the Loan-Library. It will enable the Association to give free legal advice in Boston and Cambridge, to maintain one teacher at Robert College...
None of the money raised in the drive goes to defray the actual expenses of Phillips Brooks House such as salaries and office expenses. All these are provided for under an endowment fund...