Word: repayable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...easier to borrow 85 percent on an automobile and repay it on the instalment plan than to buy a home on that basis. . . . The whole process of purchase and finance involves a ceremony like a treaty between governments...
...keep in mind that you have here in Cambridge opportunities never dreamed of by the generations gone by, that at your very doors are provided the best in every field, and that the extent to which you profit by their use will in some measure repay your obligation to those who gave you the chance to come here...
...Japanese succession, and his doubly exalted bride (nèe Tokugawa, directly descended from the Schoguns or Tycoons who ruled Japan while the power of the present Imperial house was in abeyance), sailed from Yokohama last week on a globe circling honeymoon. In London H. I. H. will repay the visit to Japan of H. R. H. Prince Henry (TIME, May 13), and in Madrid grave, bespectacled Prince Takamatsu will pin the gorgeous Order of the Chrysanthemum ("Garter of Japan'') on sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain...
...example of Critic Orage's own criticism (of a passage by Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton): "Read one after the other in the ordinary way, they [the paradoxes] stun the mind like a series of shocks; no meaning can survive them. And considered sentence by sentence they scarcely repay the trouble...
...effect entirely; be it said, however, that her voice completely makes up for any momentary loss of prestige. Lillian Roth, in a role which has excellent possibilities, gives at best an amateurish performance. "The Vagabond King" is not a master-piece, but taken all in all, it will well repay the time, the dollar, and even the car-fare, necessary...