Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Certificate, to illustrate, the veteran, after his certificate is two years old, may borrow annually thereunder, and during the 18, loaning years, he will receive a total...
...producers have been experimenting so eagerly, but which is simply a big screen. Some of the sequences in which John Mack Brown drawls through the role of Billy are effective, many of them are absurd, and in general Billy the Kid lacks the gusto it tries so hard to borrow from its models. It is a stiff, ornamental, unsuccessful imitation of a picture form which, since it made no concessions to realism, was originally pure and entrancing fable. Best shot: Wallace Beery smoking the starving outlaw out of his cave by cooking bacon where he can smell...
...borrow an old definition, a parade is composed of one band, twelve hundred kaydets, and five thousand spectators. The band plays, the kaydets stand and gripe, and the spectators thrill and go home resolving to be 100 per cent Americans and vote the straight Republican tickets. Some kaydets enjoy parades--Graduation Parade, for instance, because it's the last one. But the average kaydet doesn't enjoy the average parade...
...easier to borrow 85 percent on an automobile and repay it on the instalment plan than to buy a home on that basis. . . . The whole process of purchase and finance involves a ceremony like a treaty between governments...
Proposals. The President opened the conference in the Cabinet room. For three hours they talked. Most of the governors had come to Washington with the idea of securing Federal funds for drought relief. Governor Leslie wanted to borrow a million dollars from the Federal Reserve bank. Senator Robsion proposed that the U. S. underwrite farm tax payments in Kentucky. Governor Cooper asked for a million from any source he could get it. But President Hoover had no Federal cash to give the states. He explained that the Red Cross had made $5,000,000 available for emergency suffering, that...