Word: lien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good enough to call for an Easter encore. Last week, after sizing up audience reaction, Universal decided to make John Q. Dohp a regular feature of its newsreels, gave David Oliver a new contract for $100 a week for photography but forgot to include in the contract any lien on his services as an actor...
...done in the spirit of offering to very sick Harvard men the best possible professional facilities afforded by Harvard's great medical school and the hospitals allied with it. The student will be expected to pay for these services, less a small amount deducted in each case in lien of the provision concerning care in Stillman Infirmary included in the $10.00 fee. This deduction, paid by the University, will apply only to the cases sent to the hospital on the advice of members of the staff of the Hygiene Department. Doctors' fees for routine services at the Infirmary...
...might be," said overwrought Nat Patton, "that I used some money out of my own pocket." Over the week-end he recalled ownership of $886 in lien notes and Texas State warrants which, added to $1,100 in mileage and cash on hand," brought his total funds for the period...
...four are interrelated. Otherwise li without i becomes dishonest; without lien becomes extravagant; without ch'ih becomes flattering. All these may appear like li but really they are not. ... In like manner, ch'ih without li will be chaotic; without i, violent; without lien, ugly. They are no longer...
From Chiang's point of view, however, the four ancient virtues mean even more: ch'ih, patriotism; lien, morality; i, social sense or the exact opposite of its English meaning, and li, discipline-the four cardinal virtues of any nationalistic State. Says Chiang...