Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each time Limón puts on a recital, he has to borrow production money, pay it back from the box-office take. Says he: "We just barely break even. Everyone gets paid but me." What money he earns comes from a back-breaking teaching program: at Manhattan's Dance Players Studios, at the Katharine Dunham School, at Boston's Duncanbury School of the Arts, at Sarah Lawrence College...
...puller outside of Joe Louis, swigged water between rounds and aimed a spout at a funnel in the corner of the ring, they didn't mind being splashed. When Rocky elbowed his way through the mob to work on the small punching bag, the hangers-on tried to borrow five or ten, or find out "How's ya condition." Rocky liked to tell them kiddingly that he was going to throw the fight: "Naw, bet on the other guy . . . I'm going into the tank." Then he always gave them the same brush-off: "See ya later...
...seamstress, she married a Russian jewelry salesman named David Bryant. Within a year, the couple had a son, but a few months later Bryant died. The young widow pawned her diamond earrings, bought a sewing machine, started making lingerie at home. By 1907 she was prospering sufficiently to borrow $300 to start a separate shop, and open a bank account. At the bank, she accidentally signed her name "Lane" instead of "Lena," let it stand because she was too embarrassed over the mistake to say anything...
...Board shot off the first round by lifting the ban on margin trading on the stock exchange. Instead of requiring stock buyers to pay cash in full for stocks, they will soon be permitted to buy stocks on 25% margin-i.e., pay 75% cash, borrow the rest from brokers. This did not satisfy Wall Streeters. New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram grumbled that margins should have been set at 50%. But everyone agreed that the failing market needed a shot...
Only Lowell has decided as yet to keep its library open during the vacation, though Dunster may follow suit if sufficient demand exists. Eliot will permit each member to borrow three books for the two week period...