Word: defrayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three sports, the fencers are in the best financial position, having received a gift in excess of $40,000 from a former Crimson fencer. Presumably, they will use the income from this gift to defray expenses...
...bond issues. Disregarding temporary conditions of supply and demand, they began to set what Senator Kefauver and economists such as Edwin Nourse, ex-chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, call "administered prices"-prices that are set to achieve a predetermined profit level that will defray not only wage increases but also most of the expenses of new plant expansion...
...Harvard Freedom Council, the newly formed freshman organization to study American relations with Eastern Europe, will conduct a fund-raising drive to defray the expenses of one or more Hungarian Students in next year's freshman class...
...effect. Multiple-story garages, a parking space over the MTA carbarns, or even split-level construction for autos by the University seems unattainable in the near future. Their projects might be valuable investments although even the proposed garage fee of $50 per year would not for a long while defray the costs...
...complaint to the U.N. But, from the moment of his arrival in London, Dulles found only the British and French enthusiastic for this extreme potential of the users' idea-and they were bothered by the realization that the most that they could expect from the U.S. to defray the heavy cost of detour would be loans to pay for U.S. oil imports, not gifts. Furthermore, Nasser was so far proving disconcertingly able to run the canal by himself. As long as the canal remained open, the smaller nations were unwilling to shoulder the extra cost of sending their ships...