Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some months and a new and lighter group of doughnuts. Having then apprized myself of various financial rises in the locality which have my Vagabond mind rather worried, I shall wend my way to Sever 35 where Dr Maynadier at eleven o'clock promises to discuss a gentleman, hight Borrow, whose name has a subtle attraction for the wandering soul. This will prevent my hearing Professor Edgell in his lecture on Fifteenth Century Architecture at Fogg. But this Vagabond has as yet failed to develop a dual personality--and the name Borrow has such charm...
Greece. The Greek Debt Mission credit to the extent of $15,500,000. The Greek mission asked last week to borrow the other $32,500,000 of the credit before making a funding agreement. The American Commission, startled, prepared a formal explanation setting forth how hard it would be to get Congress to accept such a proposal...
...just how that distinguished gentleman eats, but when you begin to tamper with news and twist meanings it's time to prick that bubble about TIME'S "plucking that needle of fact out of a haystack of news." If your comments cannot be more intelligent I suggest you borrow a leaf from the Nation's book and give us your foreign news in the manner of that journal's "International Relations Section." (But if you did I suppose you'd never reach the point you strive for when you too shall be able to say: "One out of every three...
...stock some fraction of their stocks. Now these gentlemen knew that much of the common stock was owned by employes of the company who, more than usual investors, would be hurt. To such levy there was of course the resource of all business people in such a quandary, to borrow on all free real estate, on reputation, and to pay through the nose usurious interest rates, commissions, brokerages, bonuses...
...Because," answered W. R. M. Lamb, Secretary of the Academy, "we knew that the Sargent exhibition in Boston* would make it impossible for us to borrow any large number of works in possession of American owners. There are 300 in that exhibition, but it hasn't so many oils as we have. An American friend of Sargent who has seen the collection here remarked on its magnificent brightness, which makes the American Sargents look drab. That's because we have brilliant uniforms and brilliant ceremonies...