Word: owe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington. He regarded his invention as "just a side issue" and agreed to let Thomas A. Edison's name be attached to it for commercial reasons (but Armat got rich on the patent rights). Last March Hollywood awarded him a special Oscar for the "debt we all owe...
Though IAPI (pronounced "yappy") is the world's biggest state trading agency outside Russia, the report was less than a page long. It was unsigned, apparently unaudited. There was no statement of goods on hand. Though European soft-currency countries owe IAPI $732 million for food and other products bought on tick, the only reference to this was a $52 million item called "operations with foreign governments." Finally, without offering any proof, IAPI claimed a thumping 1947 profit of $259 million. "It makes no sense to me," said one Buenos Aires bank manager last week. "It looks...
...consumers owe a record $46 billion. The Federal Reserve Board predicted that the figure would reach $50 billion before the end of the year...
...thing there are Communists associated with the new party. But if any of them advocate the overthrow of the government by violence, I hope they get out now." Although, by his own admission, he has known only one Communist personally,* he conceded that "there may be some Communists who owe first allegiance to Moscow rather than to Washington-I don't think it's a majority...
...quartet drifted out of the hall. The first violinist stood up, walked to the center of the University of California's Wheeler Hall stage, and paused for quiet to make an announcement. "Last night," he said, "one of the greatest artists of quartet music, Robert Maas, died.* We owe him a tremendous debt . . . our next number will be in his memory." Then the four fiddlers of the Griller String Quartet played "Consummatum Est" from Haydn's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross; they played it with such intensity, and with so taut a rein on their emotion...