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Since no diplomas can go to men who owe any amount on their term bills, all those who expect to graduate should be prompt in making payment...
Said the committee: "We who write this report are members of religious bodies to which we owe allegiance by conviction. For us, the democratic faith . . . rests on a religious conception of human destiny. . . . [We] believe that the American people are deeply, though not always articulately, conscious of a religious heritage to whose central values they want their children to be committed...
...bowels of the earth. When he mentioned the widows and children of Centralia's dead, his voice sank to a whisper. He cried: "If we must grind up human flesh and bone in the industrial machine . . . then before God I assert that those who consume coal owe them and their families protection. ... I care not who in heaven or hell oppose it. . . ." Roaring, whispering or hammering the table, he always swiveled back to his target-Krug...
...Breadwinner by an enemy plane, the damaged ship's run home under sail through a rising storm, the deaths of the rescued pilots. Along with all this, Author Bates raises the moral question that was common in the years following World War I: What friendship does a man owe to his injured, mortal enemy?-a question that is answered with more humaneness by the R.A.F. pilot (who at least respects a fellow flyer, whatever his country's regime) than by the men of the Breadwinner...
...creditors that: "It was your war as well as ours." But the best argument was simply that if everybody demanded his full pound of flesh, there would not be enough to go around. Before his death, Lord Keynes had spoken his mind about those sterling debts: "If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy...