Word: owing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have been more than fair with all my creditors, for in order to pay the charges on the properties above mentioned. I have had to borrow and otherwise sacrifice. I am very willing, and intend to turn over all my assets to liquidate the remaining amounts which I may owe so that I may. unencumbered and unmolested, devote myself from now on to the interest of making better motion pictures." ¶ William Wrigley Jr. Co. declared four dividends on its chewing gum business- one payable in each of the next four months-at the extraordinary rate of 26 30/95...
When a Swiss fellow-worker bullied him, Hamp profited by the Anglo-Saxon atmosphere to take boxing lessons, bloodied the Swiss's nose. Hamp learned English, read whatever he could get. "I went through all printed scraps in lavatories-in fact, I owe a large part of my education to the w. c." The Dreyfus case, of which one of the results was a workers' free university at Belleville, gave Hamp his chance. He left England's kitchens, headed home towards a rosy future. "Dazzled by my imagination, I was heading for a poverty which would grow...
...bonds injured by the U. S. Congress' cancellation of their "gold clause." Up from a Labor bench popped Sir Stafford Cripps. "This is the first time," he shouted, "that the Government have sought to convince themselves by ingenious arguments that we ought to pay more than we owe! If the Exchequer is going to be generous, I suggest that there are many worthier recipients of charity-such as the unemployed-than wealthy bondholders...
...down To ring the bells of London town . . . "You owe me ten shillings!" Say the bells of St. Helen's. "When will you pay me?" Say the bells of Old Bailey. "When I shall grow rich?" Say the bells of Shot-editch. "Pray when will that be?" Say the bells of Stepnev. "I-DO-NOT-KNOW!" Says the great bell at Bow. - Old jingle...
...stands. The impressive simplicity of University Hall's granite front is an innovation of the last 90 years, for previous to that it was hidden by a massive iron portico of indescribable ugliness. The rabbit warrens in the cellars of this building which minor University officials call their offices owe all their sunlight and air to the removal of this porch. In the middle of the last century this basement was the College Commons, and here a caterer served meals at $2 a week, a practice which gave the cellar the name of "Starvation Hollow." Parenthetically one might say here...