Word: owing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...irregulars" (near-bandits), staged an impromptu raid across the Jugoslav frontier. Soon a collective note ("ultimatum") was despatched by Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece demanding that Bulgaria disband and disperse her comitadjis. Though these highly irregular gentry are not easily to be disbanded-even by the government to which they owe nominal allegiance-the Bulgarian Foreign Office drafted and despatched a sufficiently conciliatory reply to Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece last week, expressed determination to "safeguard the peace of Bulgaria's frontiers...
...establishment of the Harvard Fund fills a long felt need of the alumni body, in that it enables all to contribute something towards a debt which most of us feel we owe the University. Heretofore, many who would have liked to contribute have been deterred by embarrassment, on account of the smallness of the amount they could afford to give...
What matters most is the manner of its telling by young Master Byrne, who says that this, more than all his other writing, is a book for men of the old country that is on them all like a spell-men who surely owe him a hearty "God bless the work...
...world feeling so common in the contemplation of musical comedy heroes, Mr. Puck sings most satisfactorily, maltreats a piano outrageously, even to the extent of landing on the keys in a nose dive while in the throes of a jazz number, and clowns through numerous comedy scenes which owe their hilarity largely to his naive portrayal of the nice young man who "lives at the Y.M.C.A. in Brooklyn." Moreover, he is credited with the direction of the dance numbers, which should in itself be enough honor...
...substance of the whole matter is that the states of the American union owe a very large amount of money, which they are perfectly able to pay and which they ought to pay, but which they will not pay and which they cannot by any of the usual processes employed against delinquent debtors be made...