Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That National City employes on the other hand are still paying (from their salaries) for 60,000 shares of National City stock purchased at $200 a share and that these employes still owe more than the present market price...
...making of 'most favored nation' treaties. Finally, we have got to sit down at the council table with the rest of the world and talk the whole troublesome problem over. . . . If armaments and tariff walls can be brought down together, the foreign governments which owe us money will be able to pay us. ... The tariff problem, the debts problem, the reparations problem, the international finance problem, the foreign exchange problem, the armaments problem, the peace problem are all one problem. They cannot be solved separately. They have to be solved together through abandoning isolation and adopting reciprocal services...
...poetry in general, are particularly felicitous, and rather more interesting than the central text. In style the essays have the precision and moderation characteristic of Mr. Eliot's prose, though now and then, (as in the statement that to Dryden "as much as to any individual, we owe our civilization,") the latter quality is less evident. Certainly, readers wishing to study the current estimate of Dryden will find the present volume inadequate without reference to Mr. Eliot's earlier studies, reprinted in "Selected Essays...
Foreign debt principal now goes to public debt retirement, interest to general operating expenses of the Government. Last April Alfred Emanuel Smith proposed: "Let us say to the nations who owe us money that we will forget all about it for 20 years and will write off as paid each year 25% of the gross value of American products which they buy from...
Though he seems to have been "disintoxicated" several times, Cocteau, unlike famed Addict Thomas De Quincey, admits no desire to "reform." He writes: "Do not expect me to be a traitor. Naturally opium remains unique and its well-being superior to that of health. To it I owe my perfect hours." Saying that to lecture an opium addict is like telling Tristan to kill Isolde, he comes nearest to an apology when he writes: "Living is a horizontal fall. But for that fixative, a life completely and continually conscious of its speed would become intolerable. It allows the man condemned...