Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adams family of Massachusetts . . . owns a priceless draft of the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson in his own hand. Recently Archibald MacLeish wrote, asking if he could borrow it for display in the Library of Congress. . . . He got no reply. So he wrote again, saying he would be glad to send an armed guard for it. Still no reply. MacLeish wrote a third time, saying he would not only send an armed squadron but would insure the document for $100,000. This likewise went unanswered. MacLeish gave up. . . . [Then] he received a penny postcard. It advised him that...
...Silvanus Bourn writes, in another epistle, that he would have to borrow a pair of shoes to walk to Boston and that to buy a new pair would cost 30 dollars. During the winter of 1777-78 an order was issued to close the college due to the fuel shortage...
...large, the stony mountains still as high, the myriad populations still as strange, the myriad languages still as hard to learn. They deceive themselves who say this globe has shrunk to a convenient size, to a neighborhood whose men can greet each other at corners and whose women can borrow butter across the fence. The truth has been lost in a metaphor...
...doubts about living, eating, and working with sixty-four others in constant attendance; all that is gone--today we have much more alarming doubts about living and working without the sixty-four around! We'll have to go looking for new people to tell our troubles to, to borrow (?) our cigarettes from, and to share our misgivings over what tomorrow may bring while we bend over today's laundry...
According to Musician Wolcott (TIME, Jan. 25) of Disney's party, he wanted to borrow an umbrella, drew a picture of it, and the Argentine innkeeper brought him mushrooms...