Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of whom were bankers who had financed Fisk) for sacrificing the bondholders to suit their own fiscal interests. The old company was sold for $3,030,000 to a new corporation which wrote it up to $13,000,000, but new Fisk Rubber Corp. was clean in one respect: it had no bonded debt. And it prospered...
...thought Youth is always told that it should pay great respect to Age and it always does, but inside it usually shrugs or maybe even sneers and if it does have a feeling of respect it is only because of an externally imposed habit and not because of an honest spontaneous sentiment. Usually, perhaps, but that was not so tonight. In these surroundings it was impossible not to feel something like awe for that figure slowly getting up to cut the cake...
...States. Despite efforts made to solve the dispute by peaceful methods to which no reasonable objection could be offered, one Power has chosen to resort to force of arms. . . . The people and Government of Finland have a long honorable and wholly peaceful record which has won for them the respect and warm regard of the people and the Government of the United States." Called his strongest statement denouncing the policy of conquest and his strongest denunciation of "wanton disregard of law," it went beyond his appeals for peace when Hitler invaded Poland...
...seem happy-go-lucky, too casual to force a grave issue, too apt to wait and see. But no legate could be a better Bearer of Good Will to the gentle people of China. Nelson Trusler Johnson is the sort of roly-poly man a Chinese can respect, love, even fear far more deeply than the man with bayonet, dollar, or arrogance...
...Soviet Government deems itself compelled to state that from this date it considers itself free from the obligations undertaken under the non-aggression pact concluded between the U. S. S. R. and Finland and systematically violated by the Government of Finland. Accept, Mr. Minister, assurances of my perfect respect." Meanwhile, three new border incidents were reported exclusively by the Red Army...