Word: owing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor Winter has won this place for his subject through his own judgment, good taste, and skill, and has done good service not only to the students who have profited by his instruction, but to all people who believe that democracy will in the future as in the past owe much to citizens capable of accurate, rational, and moving public speech...
...Anita Augsburg, Frida Parlen, all of the Executive Committee of the German Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, sent a letter to Mrs. Lucy Biddie Lewis of Philadelphia, National Chairman of the United States section of the League, in which they stated: " We owe reparations; reconstruction of Northern France is a debt of honor with us. The French in 1919 failed in their great opportunity, when they might have forgiven us. Shall we fail in ours...
There are three outstanding dramatic institutions in the world today: the Moscow Art Theatre, Gordon Craig of England, Max Reinhardt of Germany. Almost everything that we owe to the modern developments in the theatre-to Realism, to Naturalism, to Expressionism, to the revolution in stage setting, scene designing, lighting, grouping, producing, directing, in short, to the whole new art of the drama, can be traced to these three sources...
...Theoretically they should if necessary run at a loss in such cases; but this has been made impossible by the unjustifiable amounts of money taken from them by the government under the terms of the Reserve Act in 1919-21, under the euphemism of "franchise taxes. The Reserve Banks owe the government nothing, and should pay it nothing, except a fair rate of interest on government deposits. Certainly the British government, which needs funds more acutely than ours, should not think of profiteering at the expense of the Bank of England in any such way. Before a theoretically correct rediscount...
...that the Department of the Classics has to bestow, the student must show distinguished ability in the writing of Greek and Latin prose. This subject is no mere exercise in grammar; it clears one's thoughts and trains one's style. Many of the best writers in England undoubtedly owe part of their excellence to this practice. The successful candidates for Honors in the Classics have for many years been among the foremost scholars of their classes...