Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice Holmes, venerable in retirement, is still sharp and mellow of mind. He has lately been less troubled by the lumbago which was an immediate cause of his leaving the High Bench. Leaving his motor to call on his former colleagues or to borrow or return books from the Supreme Court Library, his step seems more lively, his bearing more erect, than two months ago. This year he has given no press interviews, made no public statements, but.to a banquet held by the Federal Bar Association in his honor on his 91st birthday (March 8) he wrote...
Dean Gauss' suggestion that the needy undergraduate borrow sufficient funds for his demands, to be repaid when he is financially competent, is heartily commendable. Too great emphasis cannot be placed on increased aid through scholarships and greatly magnified student loan funds. Yale News...
There is nothing very bad in finding that Lowell wears well, nor is there anything particularly starting in the discovery. When gamins form a club in the old house at the corner they borrow a sheet from the family linen closet and paint an ominous skull and cross bones on it, or they select a secret pass word, or they conceive a now hand shake. It is all such jolly fun and so confusing to the other club round the corner. At times organizations are even formed for the sole purpose of endowing them with such delightful devices, and pretty...
...Borrowing. But whence the 100 shares to the buyer? If the broker has not got them in his office, he must go out and borrow them from another broker with whom he must put up the stock's full cash value as security. Sometimes, depending upon the available supply of individual stocks, the lending broker pays the borrowing broker interest on his cash deposit. Sometimes the borrowing broker not only foregoes interest on his cash but has to pay the lending broker a premium for the stock itself. This premium is charged to the short-selling customer...
Thomas Love Peacock wrote the lines, though George Borrow might have written them. Wanderiuster Baerlein might have written them too. It is in this tone, rare in English literature, that he tells of his roamings in Transylvania...