Word: due
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bell, the able performances of Actor Gilbert and of Actress Eagels, make it possible to forgive certain weaknesses in the story. The weakness of the conclusion in which Mr. Gilbert wobbles off with his mother (adequately played by Gladys Brockwell) can be largely forgiven because its frailty is not due to an abortive attempt to satisfy the unsophisticated appetite for rose petals and wedding bells at every story...
Skjellerup's comet, due to appear on the western horizon this evening, may have been sighted just after sunset yesterday from the Harvard Observatory, it was learned at a late hour last night from Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory...
Skjellerup's comet will be visible for the first time from Cambridge due west just at sundown on December 19, according to an announcement last night by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory...
...Due care should be observed, however, to prevent a duplication of financing, and a second acceptance arising out of the same transaction or series of transactions involving the same goods should be in effect merely an extension of an already existing credit. Thus, if one acceptance is issued to finance the shipment of goods to a foreign country and a second acceptance is issued to finance the distribution of such goods into the channels of trade, the proceeds of the second acceptance should be used to retire the first acceptance...
Love is certainly a poor translation of the title of Anna Karenina. It would be natural to suppose that the rest of famed Leo Tolstoi's novel would suffer similarly; that it does not, is due in part to the direction of Edmund Goulding and in even larger part to the acting of Greta Garbo...