Word: owing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illusion of three dimensions have also been cast and screened. To behold them, spectators have been obliged to use special and cumbersome opera-glasses. Nonetheless, these are stages on the way to perfect photography, and it may well be that upon his next trip George Eastman, to whom scientists owe as much thanks as he to them, will carry equipment that will record his exploits in three-dimensional and four-color exactitude...
...escape from so great a danger we owe to Mussolini alone...
...Manhattan; at Manhattan embarked for Europe, for, as he has said, "My chief interests are the building of monuments in France to the memory of the service of American soldiers in the War, and assisting to build this great cathedral to the glory of Him to Whom we owe all our greatness. Many cathedrals unfortunately, have been destroyed in wars, and I, for one, should like to have a hand in building a cathedral...
Mirrors. What novelists and playwrights, to say nothing of the rocking-chair crowd, owe to the younger generation for material will never be accurately computed. There seems always to be just one more complaint to be voiced. This time it is a smart suburban district festering from the flask infection on its young men's hips. These young people kiss each other a good deal. For these things they would be presumably damned were it not for one among them who was pure. She shows the path to sobriety, sweetness, light. A little child shall lead them...
Grosvenor Monro Jones who as head of the Department of Commerce's finance & investment division directed the figuring, estimated that foreign corporations (governmental and private) and foreign governments owe the U. S. $13,000,000,000. That is exclusive of the $10,000,000,000 owed on War loans made directly by the U. S. Government to foreign governments. The exact totals are impossible to state because, although most foreign securities are sold publicly by U. S. investment bankers, a certain number are distributed privately...