Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentlemen feel, but I cannot help feeling . . . that there has been definite and distinct progress toward a spiritual reawakening. ... It is a very significant thing that this awakening has come about in America. It makes me realize more fully that we do have, in addition to the duty we owe to our own people, an additional duty to the rest of the world. Things have been going on in other countries, things which are not spiritual in any sense of the word-and that is putting it mildly...
...such we owe some measure of cooperation and even leadership in maintaining standards of conduct helpful to the ultimate goal of general peace...
...same scale of indemnity Japan would owe the U. S. $5,220 for the three men killed in the sinking of the Panay, but the U. S. settled for an apology, promise of indemnity and guarantee against future attack (see p. 7). No Japanese newspaper printed the text of the apology, and the divine Emperor Hirohito-who did not feel that politeness required him to reply to President Roosevelt's personal protest-opened the Imperial Diet with a Speech from the Throne which omitted mention of the Panay. "We feel greatly gratified to see relations between Japan...
...many writers owe as much to a house as does Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West, wife of Diplomatist-Biographer Harold Nicolson. Vita Sackville-West grew up in an Elizabethan castle which contains 365 rooms, 52 staircases, seven courts, covers seven acres-an environment where, says Hugh Walpole, dukes meant no more to her than Scotland Yard men did to Edgar Wallace. To this background, tall, brunette Author Sackville-West, now 45, owes the subject matter for The Edwardians, a novel which (in the U. S. at least) made her literary reputation, also her semi-legendary fame as heroine of Virginia...
...find I have paid an average of $.67 a copy, and figure that I can make as good or even a better bargain by paying two cents for one elsewhere. If you wish to continue sending occasional copies until the end of March to make up what you owe me, please do, but I am not going to pay for any more after the first of the year...