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Word: owing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beloved sister, came to see me just in time to save me from self-destruction. You pointed out the way out of my difficulties. I owe to you my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gold-Digging Justified | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...certain that with what others owe her and her great foreign investments scattered all over the world, England has enough to call herself safe. . . . Sterling is more likely to hold its own and return to normal than many other things in this depressed world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Grandpapa | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...discussing these things now, free of collapse and panic, you owe this solely to my colleagues and myself who took the action which we did last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Heather v. Cormorant | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...because I'm not. . . . You wouldn't go get a sawmill man and have him perform an operation for appendicitis on you, would you? Well, nobody ever claimed Hugh White ever had a minute's training in governmental affairs. . . . It's a money campaign. . . . Everything I am today I owe to my mother and father. . . . Hugh White has spent his whole life in the pursuit of wealth. He says a man should not be elected to office unless he can pay his own campaign expenses. We have 13 millionaires in Mississippi. I don't see why the people must select...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Governor for Mississippi | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...five delegates to that conference. In the meantime she expected to be paid the Young Plan annuities due her from Germany on July 15 ($17,860,000). Last week she punctiliously placed to Great Britain's credit in the Bank for International Settlements the amount ($3.808,000) she would owe Great Britain at the same time (which the British Treasury hastily announced it would not dream of touching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Beggar No Chooser | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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