Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sighted alumni in 1836 to be read at the 1936 Tercentenary. President Quincy, it turned out, had neglected to seal them up before 1843. An unnamed Philadelphia graduate had been willing to wait a century for the denouement of a crabbed jest when he wrote: ''I owe nothing to the president, professors and tutors of Harvard College in office from 1810 to 1814." Of larger interest was a note from Samuel Atkins Eliot, later Harvard's treasurer, apologizing for delay in some Bicentenary task because his 2-year-old son was seriously ill. Said James Bryant Conant...
...most evident that an orator who inveighs against persons who represent the supreme social authorities, with the evident danger of shaking the respect that the people owe to those authorities, sins against the elementary proprieties. The impropriety is greater as well as more evident when the orator is a priest...
...ghost of a Florentine monk who died in 1317 had appeared in Chicago last week, it could have pointed a spectral finger at 59 men and one woman, members of the American Academy of Optometrists, and intoned: "Your means of livelihood you owe mostly to me." In a Vienna museum stands a statue of this medieval monk, with a pair of glasses in one hand and bearing this inscription: Here lies Salvina D'Armato degli Armati of Florence, the inventor of spectacles. May God forgive his sins...
Last week, girding himself for the toughest fight in his political career against "Cowboy Ben" Ross, Senator Borah turned up at Boise to say of his loyal constituency with unprecedented warmth and familiarity: "I do not believe any public man ever owed the debt of gratitude to the people whom he was seeking to serve that I owe to the people of Idaho. After 30 years of service and under rather involved circumstances, they have given anew their assurance of confidence. I prize this above all things that could come to me in the way of compensation...
BELIEVE YOU OWE DOCTOR SPAETH AMENDS AND APOLOGIES AND SOME CLEVER CAPTION-WRITER A GOOD HARD SIT DOWN IN HIS CHAIR FOR WHAT IS ON PP. 36 AND 37, TIME. APRIL...