Word: owing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore let there be violins and, for this once, even let there be saxaphones. Tonight a Gothic gaiety envelops Cambridge. The Gothic we have always with as hat the gaiety that we owe to the ladies. As Tiny Tim observed anent something or other God bless them every...
...thing that interests you the most is the two dollars I owe you.2 I have recently, within the week, written my banker to send a remittance to cover my needs until I gain my freedom on Oct. 27. As soon as it arrives, TIME will be reimbursed...
...this time Italy had been breaking up into petty kingdoms; and from the 9th Century to the 19th "Italy" lost its meaning as a political entity and became a region of separate states-some free cities, some republics, some ruled by kings, princes, dukes or petty nobles. Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor...
Government Contention. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon has decided that in 1913 Ford stock was worth between $2,500 and $5,500 a share. If so, the minority stockholders who sold in 1919 owe the Government back income taxes of $15,000,000 to $30,000,000, as may decide the Special U. S. Board of Tax Appeals that has been sitting in Washington. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Daniel C. Roper had no authority to do Ford company stockholders the favor of estimating the tax value of their property. In fine, the Government has never officially decided what...
Utterances: "Hunger, cold rags, hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable; but debt is infinitely worse than them all. ... If you have but 50c and can get no more for a week, buy a peck of corn, parch it and live on it, rather than owe any man a dollar...