Word: owing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press this point of view. The very history of the Mississippi Valley has proved that the people who dwell here in the South and West have been true exponents of American greatness. They recognized that the destiny of this country lay in an expanding vision. To that view we owe the way of life we now applaud...
...Brilliant Chinese leaders by the score owe their education to American universities. A chief official of the Chinese information ministry, Hollington K. Tong, is a graduate of the journalism schools of the Universities of Missouri and Columbia. Our schools of journalism have had more effect, proportionately, on Chinese newspapers than...
...have always been careful to present a complete story, and I think you owe it to your pro-Willkie readers to give it to them in this instance, rather than leave them with a false sense of security in the attitude of the nation's press. As a Willkie supporter, I'd like the complete story myself...
Automobiles. The average single man pays for his automobile by the month. Possible draftees now drive 354,000 partly-owned cars, owe about $200 each or $70,800,000, less than 6% of $1,420,000,000 total auto loans. General Motors Acceptance Corp., No. i auto-finance company, figures possible conscripts hold no more than i?% of its contracts. But other auto financiers say they will examine future buyers more carefully, are considering a new type of contract with a co-maker. They may also ask more cash down, larger monthly payments...
Swiss Philosopher de Rougemont's ambitious thesis is that Europe and the Western Hemisphere owe their desperate plight to their over-susceptibility to passionate love. Ancient Greeks and Romans, says he, regarded love as a mental aberration, an unqualified misfortune; Orientals so regard it today. Only in the Western world has it taken a hold in the mores, been accorded respect. Taking Tristan and Iseult as the archetypes of passion, he hangs on their necks more weight than Freud ever hung on Oedipus...