Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burden of expenses has been greatly relieved through the work of the Loan Fund. A man may borrow $300 the first year, and $600 the second. In addition, there are fifty-three service scholarships for poor men, not to mention numerous Alumni Club scholarships...
Students in history, government, and economics borrow books from the Boylston Reading Room at an approximate rate of 1,500 to 2,000 books a month--adequate testimony of the worth of the overnight privilege, particularly for the man who is busy during the day and cannot get his reading done in the regular hours. But the value of the privilege is considerably lessened by the inconvenient conditions under which books must be returned. The Reading Room regulations require books to be checked in by nine, and yet the Room opens at just a quarter to the hour, with...
...News did borrow TIME's phrase about Jim Farley, "big, bald and breezy," and gave appropriate credit...
...suggesting the scheme without running the risk of putting it into practice. But when it is remembered that these few febrile souls are not backed by the Club's officials, little else is to the point. So far as these independent members are concerned, at least, one may borrow a phrase from Saki, and say: pacifists "are not made but still-born...
...promised to sell preferred stock or capital notes to the Government-perhaps as much as $200,000,000. With more funds than they know what to do with-safely-the Manhattan banks estimate that their capitulation to Mr. Jones will cost them at least $1,500,000. They will borrow from the R. F. C. at 5% (4% if retired within three years) and then promptly invest it in Government bonds yielding anywhere from 3.32% to 1/20 of 1%. Financial Editor Ralph Hendershot of the New York World-Telegram mused: "The change suggests that perhaps some rather high-powered arguments...