Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result is one of those famous 'vicious circles.' Even in case our export trade yielded us a surplus sufficient to pay the three billion marks we owe every year, our creditors would still be paying out of their own pockets a large part of what they were collecting from us. This indisputable fact in my opinion, leads to only one solution. We cannot keep up for long meeting the demands of the Young plan...
...intended to refer bears the name O. M. Bodenhamer . . . and to have stated that he was given the "bum's rush" was probably using a term far below the dignity attached to one who only recently headed that magnificent group of Americans, the American Legion. I think you owe him apology, and should correct his name. No "Bodenheimer" was ever given the "bum's rush" and, most likely, "Bodenhamer" should not have been so accused...
...Calvin Coolidge appeared on the platform and got a thunderous two-minute ovation. Insistent cries of "Speech! Speech!" brought him forward to say: "To save the time of the Convention I will address you in one sentence?You have paid your debt to La Fayette but you still owe a debt to yourselves and to the nation." President Hoover smiled. There was no Hoover-Coolidge hobnobbing. After the Legion speech he proceeded with traffic difficulty to the Hotel Statler where an adulant crowd hustled the President and Mrs. Hoover through the narrow lobby. In the turmoil four policemen gave...
...four universities Professor Banting spent a long day attending ceremonies and meals, hearing speeches, encomiums. Pat was the praise of Berkeley George Andrew Lord Moynihan of Leeds, president of the Royal College of Surgeons: "His memorial is the gratitude in the hearts of millions of [diabetic] people who owe their lives to Dr. Banting. Am I not right, when I add, he wears with becoming humility, the crown of immortality?" Throughout the long day Professor Banting said scarcely a word. He may have been thinking, as many of his lauders were, of his sudden flight to prestige. Dates best mark...
...present our attitude toward higher education is vitiated by three unhealthy influences. The first is the superstitious reverence for full-time schooling which we owe to an hereditary governing class. . . . The second unhealthy influence is a corollary of this superstition: the assumption that all education must take the form of a continuous school and university life, that if a boy leaves school he abandons definitely all hope of pursuing any connected course of education...