Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once he offered to buy La Presse for a friendly newsman. Another man who wanted to borrow some money from the Count ended up by lending him $1,500. In the best Continental manner, the Count surrounded himself with pretty women...
...planet--reporting that TIME's staff, if uncompelled to tread the grand old party line, is admirably equipped to supply. We are at a crossroads in foreign policy, atomic policy, domestic policy--and a well informed citizenry is our best insurance against disastrous delusions, irretrievable mistakes and, again to borrow a TIMEphrase, World...
...quiet George L. Russell Jr., current up-from-the-ranks president, foresees some trying days ahead. The price of fur, the principal raw material, has almost doubled since the war began. To pay for and operate Mallory, Stetson has to borrow $2,500,000. Nevertheless, convinced that many of the world's heads are still uncovered, Stetson expects that its new investment will keep it in the black...
Liberated Teachers. Barr plans to borrow a few faculty members from St. John's, persuade some recent St. Johnnies to try their hand at teaching, and raid established schools to "liberate oppressed minorities" who believe in the St. John's way. A teaching task-force from "College X" will invade the nearest city, bring the great books to grownups who are too old or too busy to go to college...
...Treasurer Fines shrewdly ordered the banker not to cash the check, instead to borrow enough U.S. dollars on it to pay off the bonds. If the Canadian dollar stayed put, the gamble would cost only the interest on the New York loan...