Word: owing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meiklejohn alludes to the influence that the Chafee-Sutherland doctrine had on the Association of American University's unanimous statement on "The Rights and Responsibilities of Universities and their Faculties" and reproachfully comments on that statement: "Their renunciation of the obligations of intellectual leadership which they owe to the nation, their desertion, in time of trial, of scholars and teachers whom, through years of association, they had found worthy of trust, is one of the most disastrous actions in the history of American education...
...Konrad Adenauer ... It is recognized that West Germany is the key to the economic and political future of Western Europe, and that now includes the U.S. . . . West Germany could have been a powder keg to pro duce chaos . . . and the freedom-loving people of the world owe Adenauer a great deal. My God ! What if another rabble-rouser had come to the top ? ARTHUR H. HASCHE Watertown...
...live, dine, study and tutor in the Houses today it is fitting that we as students and tutors be reminded of ho much we owe to Mr. Lowell, who was born ninety-seven years ago Sunday. A. C. Hanford, Professor of Government...
...Gift of the week: $1,086,000 to Tuffs College from Medford, Mass. Manufacturer Harry Posner, a once penniless Russian immigrant who amassed a fortune by making collapsible boxes, now wishes to make "part payment of the debt we owe this land...
...public notice, under the title of Scots Poets, that the very term, Scots Poetry, borders on the burlesque." When his excise pay "was cut, Burns went to bed with a fever, and on July 12, 1796, begged ?10 of a cousin: "A rascal of a Haberdasher to whom I owe a considerable bill . . . has commenced a process against me . . . O, James! . . . Save me from the horrors of a jail!" Within a fortnight, and before the ten-pound check or the haberdasher, death came, at 37, to Robert Burns...