Word: owings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ocean" showed startling figures dealing with the pressure it exerts upon itself. "If the ocean were not compressible," he says, "sea level would be 200 feet higher than it is now. It is to this fact, than the ocean can sit upon itself, so to speak, that we owe our present safety...
...home and a home for nursing mothers in Mühlheim, adjoining his own house, and contributes to a long list of hospitals, institutions, students' and middle-class canteens and scientific research institutions throughout Germany. Large numbers of shamefaced poor, including needy artists, writers and 'disabled officers, owe their existence to him in the present crisis. Under no circumstances does Herr Stinnes permit his name to be used in connection with his relief work, which cannot be computed in cash...
...Undergraduates pay $250 a year for tuition that costs the College $500," he said. "We owe $1000. One man could give $100,000, but the gift would not represent the Class. For this is the repayment of the class to the college of some of its debt...
...sand, where camels are more numerous than locomotives, traveling is neither comfortable, rapid nor safe-even for Kings. King Hussein of Hedjas set out upon a tour of Arabia some weeks ago. Near Petra in Kerak (Trans-jordania) he was attacked last week by a band of Wahabis, who owe their allegiance to the Emir of Riyadh*, Abd el-Aziz es-Saud. After a long struggle, King Hussein's escort repelled the attackers. The trouble between King Hussein and the Emir of Riyadh is over the demarcation of the eastern boundary of Hedjas, the alleged aspiration of King Hussein...
...choice of Hot Springs, although entailing certain difficulties, will at least result in the Pudding Show going to Washington to make its annual bow before the President. To this custom the Hot Springs advocates owe, in part, their success. For with as reliable a city as Washington (judged from Hasty Pudding standards) on the list, the club feels that the southern trip is sure to be successful. Other arguments that tended to sway the opposition were that Hot Springs is the converging point, during April, of many influential Middle Westerners, and that since some members of the Hasty Pudding have...