Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the way neighbors borrow and swap, you do us a sorry injustice by limiting our readers to the total number of our weekly circulation. More accurate would be 17,000,000 weekly copies; 85,000,000 smalltown, rural and homesick metropolitan readers. For ours is no subway sedative completing its life-cycle from press to ashcan within two hours...
...Camp No. 1 are the isolationists like Senator Hiram Johnson who nearly five years ago framed and got passed the legislation which makes it impossible for a nation which is in default on its debts to the U. S. (i.e., nearly all of Europe) to borrow any more U. S. money, and the drafters of the 1937 Neutrality Act which prohibits sales to belligerents other than on a dockside cash & carry basis. This camp also includes such public spokesmen as Mr. Herbert Hoover, Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, who is suspicious of all foreigners, and Senator Bob Reynolds...
...Diocesan Convention for permission to form a new parish, to be named St. James'. Permission granted, the parish invited popular Mr. Noe to be its rector. Pending the raising of money to build a church, Mr. Noe's flock planned to meet wherever they could hire or borrow a hall. In his first sermon, preached in a synagogue, Rector Noe promised "the greatest crusade for Christ ever known." Last Sunday, in the Nineteenth Century Club, he preached on "The Twentieth Century Church...
...Brooklyn Children's Museum, youngsters learn about the earth, minerals, birds, animals, plants, insects, geography, history. They observe families of mice, model in clay, peer through microscopes, take apart models of flowers under the supervision of adult "docents.''* Patrons may borrow exhibits to take home. Only rule is that they must handle them with clean hands. The museum provides soap and water...
...drill press at 14 for International Harvester Co., about trolley cars by being a conductor in Milwaukee. He founded his own business, a rail joint welding company, in 1900 with the first $700 he saved. For ten years he paid himself only $2 a day, and often had to borrow from the neighborhood saloonkeeper to meet his payroll...