Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poultry Sum. In Kansas City, Werdin E. Harlow sued Fred C. Bays for $800, said it was wages due him as a "professional chicken and turkey sitter...
...haggling, Lord Addison read a new statement of Labor's policy. He agreed to the conference the Tories wanted, dodged the question of clipping the peers' powers. The Addison formula: "The discussion of the powers of the [Lords] should be limited to ensuring reasonable time for the due performance of their functions. . . ." This was magnificent bureaucratic jabberwocky, but everybody agreed that it was a compromise : the House of Lords was going to be reformed, and Labor would let the Tories have a say in it. Said,the Marquess of Salisbury: change would now come "in a decent, orderly...
...took up emergency stations. The National Guard was called out. Hundreds of families left the city for the country. Caraqueños, who have never known an air raid, need not have been panicky. President Romulo Betancourt was on top of the situation, and besides, the bombing was not due until Feb. 15, the inauguration day of his successor, Novelist Romulo Gallegos...
...student who has not received a bill should immediately procure a duplicate from the Bursar's office in Lehman Hall. Study cards are due at University 2 no later than 5 o'clock today...
Meanwhile, he will look for evidence that the "red shift" does not indicate speed but is due to some other effect, such as light getting "tired." Hubble does not expect such evidence, but will welcome it if he finds it. Tired light, he thinks, would be a discovery quite as sensational as the exploding universe...