Word: owe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R.A.F. bombing raid on Germany-from the telltale packet of negatives parachuted to English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors are those happy few to whom Britain and the democracies owe so much: the members of the R.A.F. There is not a ham in the cast...
...people of this country owe a great debt to Louis Brandeis. If our present body of public servants consists, even to a small extent, of officials and experts who tackle their jobs with the fervor of conviction; if the typical member of such a body is a cross between the lawyer, the economist, the engineer; if he combines an objective approach with an eye for action; if he is turning from a passive to an affirmative liberalism--then a large part of the credit must go to currents that Brandeis set in motion. In losing him, America has lost...
...Your Majesty, I am now the happiest woman in the world. My Polish soldier married me and I owe...
...teaching literature change like fashions in everything else, and there is today, I suppose, a swing away from the purely factual and philological emphasis which was the Kittredge tradition. But those of us who studied in that tradition, even though we may have moved in other directions since, owe it a great debt. We were taught to be accurate, to respect external facts more than our own interpretations of them, to mistrust cloudiness and generality. Mr. Kittredge was the embodiment of a whole era in American literacy scholarship, and it is a tribute to the force of his personality that...
...corporations for months have figured on higher taxes, have already paid about one-third of their total 1941 tax bill through the purchase of more than $1,000,000,000 tax-anticipation notes. On this count, big business showed far more foresight than individuals. Although U. S. citizens will owe $3,000,000,000 in taxes beginning March 15, they have thus far bought only $66,000,000 in tax-anticipation notes...