Word: owing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world, the workers are on top. The only citizens are laborers, the only wealth is work, and a new type of society has been organized that is going to possess the future. As the French Revolution brought political democracy, the Russian Revolution is bringing economic democracy. We owe to the Bolsheviki the creation of the first economic democracy in history...
...another. When James B. and John J. McNamara, the dynamiting brothers who from 1905 to 1910 blew up bridges, piers, hotels and finally the Los Angeles Times, were captured in Detroit in 1911, it was to Hero Burns that Theodore Roosevelt telegraphed: "All good American citizens feel that they owe you a debt of gratitude for some signal service to American citizenship...
...Sullivan has been in a large measure successful in his aims, those who are young today owe him a debt of gratitude. To have vitalized and humanized any portion of history is to have made possible a greater degree of sympathy on the part of succeeding generations: and with sympathy minimizes bigotry and misunderstanding. No future student of that beefsteak and-whiskey decade which began the present century can afford to miss its powerful exponent Mark Sullivan...
...Many men owe him much. He has spent his years giving help, not asking favors. About the only thing he ever asked was to be named for Vice President in 1920. He was hurt when his friends replied then with a mere gesture. Hence his "no stalking horse" proviso this time...
Rythm. Dr. G. P. Bidder extended Sir Arthur's history of mankind back to pelagic times, saying: "We owe our appreciation of dancing, poetry, music and our sense of rhythm to the actions we made when we were only tiny blobs of jelly flagellates, millions of years...