Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Conklin) has an admirer so polite that he apologizes to Mrs. Murray because his late father, a judge, once jailed her for 30 days. Ellen pays little attention to him until he announces that he is sailing to take a job in Belgium, whereupon she decides that they owe themselves a week end alone before he leaves. When Mrs. Murray, horrified at this project, tries to dissuade her daughter, Ellen confounds her by bringing up an amorous episode from Mrs. Murray's past, discovered while Ellen was researching a thesis at college, and by the further discovery that...
...League Council had agreed that: 1) ,the Alexandretta district shall have its own administration under supervision of a League High Commissioner of French nationality, 2) it shall owe allegiance to Syria three years hence when France gives up her Syrian mandate, 3) Turkey and France shall "guarantee its international integrity." Foreign Minister Dr. Aras knew that this "strictly legal and just settlement" would give Dictator Kamal Atatürk virtual dominion of Alexandretta, that Turks would have free access for their goods through Alexandretta's economically vital port...
Today, Georges Enesco remains a great violinist and a gifted composer. Rumanians consider him their best conductor as well. To him they owe the beginnings of a true Rumanian school in music. For eleven years Enesco was Yehudi Menuhin's violin teacher, and the two broadcast a violin duet together last fortnight in Manhattan. Prodigy Menuhin, now 20, says: "In Enesco I have discovered what I have been searching for all my lifetime...
...payments will be far smaller than its tax collections for many years. In 1938 collections will exceed actual payments by $480,000,000. This money will be invested in Government bonds and if a $40,000,000,000 reserve should be built up as anticipated, the Government might eventually owe its whole public debt to its prospective pensioners. It was this that Alf Landon last fall called a "cruel hoax" on the workers of America...
...like-is the most ideal form of government. It depends on the quality of a nation whether they evolve a decent oligarchy or not. I am not sure that Russia will, but Germany and Italy have a chance. Without the aristocratic ideal there is no stability. You in England owe it to your 'gentleman' that you possess the world...