Word: solvent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must face. If the U. S. is to carry out the proposals of the Gray report--and our national security may depend on those proposals--it had better be prepared to give plenty, and to give it cheerfully, for as long as our perspective allies need aid to remain solvent and to remain allies...
...failings of the post-war Class Albums and the dealings of "314" business managers scarcely justify supervision of Yearbook Publications' activities. The one year old group, whatever its failings, has established a financially solvent organization for publishing an annual and set up a staff that will not break up completely each year. It deserves the right to improve its product without University interference. There is no reason for judging it on records established by annuals organized on a wholly different basis, the Albums...
...informing the husband that his wife will have to support him. Though this idea comes hard to many men, the fact is that they themselves cannot count on more than ten dollars a week from part-time work. Mrs. Baker points out that few student marriages can be solvent "if the man has any false pride about his wife working full time...
...British fleet was bombarding nearby Fort McHenry, Brown wrote: "I cannot think that they will ever destroy Baltimore." While other merchants fled, Brown helped keep the business community functioning. Years later, when a money panic threatened to wreck Baltimore's businessmen, Alexander Brown proclaimed: "No firm inherently solvent [will] be allowed to fail." This promise of support was enough to end the panic...
...writer spelled it out: "Love, petting and indulgence will not hurt a child if at the same time he is taught to be unselfish and obedient. Love is the mighty solvent...