Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owe my career to the social and educational institutions of the State, up from the red schoolhouse on the country hillside, through the public highschool, and on to a university founded by the colonists far back of the first days of the Republic. As a poor return for these benefits I stand ready in the present crisis to give to my fellow-citizens such services as they may ask of me provided nothing is asked beyond my abilities...
...forth in all its glory. It has amazing extent. Not only does the Wizard figure out what needs inventing and then invent it, but he trains a sales force, markets his product. At heart a chemist, he is entirely at home in physics, astronomy, architecture, politics. Many business practices owe their origin to him. His phenomenal memory recalls with equal ease the make of his first printing press, the dimensions of his early laboratory, scientific facts pertaining to his many inventions, and every superior funny story anyone has told...
...ticket headed by Secretary of Labor Davis. The Senate virtually set a campaign expenditure limit of $195,000 in the case of Michigan's Newberry (1922). Senator Caraway jibed that if Mrs. McCormick and Mr. Davis were elected and seated, the Senate would owe an apology to William Scott Vare and Frank Leslie Smith, Pennsylvania's and Illinois' famed Senators-reject...
...assume that the peregrine students are underclassmen. If they have been longer under the nurturing, exigent shadows of Oxford and Cambridge, these venerable institutions, of course, owe the world an apology...
...well feel proud of this intercession of the Lord. Today we are thinking of those who fell. They marched to the battlefront praying, trusting in the righteousness of their cause. True to their oath, they died for the Kaiser and the Reich, for German fame and honor. We owe it to them to assert all our strength to retain that for which they died. We promise to do that in unshakable faith and with our eyes fastened upon the Savior of the world, who once prayed also for German soldiers. Then we, too, shall earn the praise He gave...