Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tinkering with it Congressmen will be able to justify almost any figure they want to set for a cash payment in 1935. If they want to be ungenerous they might figure out that the veterans, as a group, should pay the Government the interest they are supposed to owe on their loans. If they want to be most generous they can figure out that the Government should pay the veterans the full $2,137,975,157 which the Legion asks...
...studio was discovered a phot graph forged with the signature: "I owe everything to you.-Frank Crumit...
...this Reader many owe their knowledge of the fact that the name of Abou Ben Adhem "led all the rest." Now, with Caroline Norton, one reads about the "soldiers of the Legion" who "lay dying in Algiers," and then he turns to Charles Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig." How many thousands of youngsters have been fired by Webster's "Supposed Speech of John Adams" and how many have laughed over Hawthorne's "Rill from the Town Pump...
...than the Holland Tunnel between New York and New Jersey under the Hudson River. The latter consists of two tubes, with two lanes of one-way traffic in each. Queensway, being a single tube, has four lanes of traffic. Said Queensway's Chief Engineer Sir Basil Mott: "We owe much to experience gained by the Americans in building the Holland Tunnels...
...Neither Democrats nor Republicans have paid their 1932 radio bills. The Democrats owe NBC $107,571, Columbia $47,650. The Republicans owe NBC $74,470, Columbia...