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...sign notes for the expected bill. The notes would bear 6% interest charges and would fall due at regular intervals, like instalments on a motor or radio. The doctor would take the notes to a special financing corporation and get $35 for every $100 which his patient was to owe him. When the full bill was paid to the financing corporation the doctor would get $51.37 more, a total of $86.37 for each $100 of service. The corporation would keep $13.63 for its expenses and for a fund to pay off bad debts...
...Then I owe you a racquet," she said and fetched a racquet on which she signed her name, presented it to onetime Ballboy Wiggins. Twenty-two years ago, pleased with the Wiggins alertness, Miss Sutton promised him a racquet next time she returned. Last week was the first time she had played at Wimbledon since...
...Senate is made up of a number of men . . . but there are about a dozen who call themselves Republicans who owe no real allegiance to our party. . . . We have seen the results in the agriculture bill*. . . . What is to be done? We can't blame the President. ... If he had nine lives, he might devote five of them to these men but he would not gain their votes...
...belong". Most of the current criticism in regard to this institution centers around its familiar indifference to the press of the trousers or the shine on the shoes. It is true that a large number of men do shave daily but it is hardly to this that they owe the remarkable front which has apparently enabled them to get away with murder for the past three hundred years. To become really serious about the matter, however out of place it may be, it may be well to point out that the reason Harvard "never apologises, never argues, never listens...
...Packard writes, "Let them keep quiet and pay what they owe, which is what they always pretend they are doing." Certain State's of the Union are keeping very quiet, but make no pretense of paying what they owe to Great Britain...