Word: owing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...search for better understanding among the peoples of this country and the world. Members of the Association are engaged actively in such work as the Council on Post-war Problems, settlement-house work, social work-projects of various sorts, Volunteer Civil Defense Work, etc., etc. We feel we owe a debt of gratitude to the Crimson for its service in helping to remove the misunderstanding which makes the work of the pacifists doubly difficult in war time. Hugh Barbour '42, Preston Roberts '43, Richard Henry '43, for the Harvard Pacifist Association...
...repaid through the mediation of Mr. Higgenbotham, frog & snake catcher, who happened to owe Mrs. Rawlings six dollars. One day he drove up with a trussed-up sow, asked Mrs. Rawlings if she wanted to buy a pig. "Now what I got figgered out is this. That sow there is worth six dollars. . . . I owe you six dollars. If Mr. Martin takes that sow, you've paid him and I've paid you. Now how about...
...knows how few of us civilians will ever realize how much you are doing for us and how much we owe you," Mrs. McEuen told her sailors. "God bless you -and give us strength to carry on the fight for the glass of beer for the sailor in surroundings worthy...
...rich tearing up Chicago's streets and inserting sewers therein, picked him for the practically honorary post (the Kelly-Nash machine gets all the upstate patronage, anyway). When he was tapped, McKeough spoke up with a lump in his throat: "Whatever I have accomplished in public life, I owe entirely to the Honorable Patrick "A. Nash, the greatest patriarch in the Democratic Party's history in all America...
...chief place of honor is undoubtedly Tyndale's. It was he who gave to our Biblical speech its organic features, shaping it out of the language of his time. . . . To Tyndale we owe the tone of simple earnestness, the plainness of speech, and the economy of words, that characterize so much of our Bible...