Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's Council is not a truly political group; voters cannot follow a party slate, and nothing is accomplished by voting for a candidate who demands the elimination of all grades below B, since the Council has no jurisdiction over anything but the groups that borrow money from...
...adaptable," he still had to rehearse them three times a day, between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. He had waited until the day before the concert for his score of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to arrive, finally had to phone the U.S. embassy in Paris to borrow another and have it flown down. There were no mutes for the trumpets; he had to borrow felt hats to be used instead. The Casino's rosy-faced Artistic Director Georges Mockers, after being sent to find the automobile horns prescribed by Gershwin for his An American in Paris, couldn...
...receives. But what really did her in was last year's "capital contribution," which raised her tax bill to ?100,000 ($400,000)-?30,000 ($120,000) more than she took in. Unless the Lords permitted her to dip into capital or borrow on future income, Lady Mountbatten would become a tax delinquent...
...entirely possible to live in Winthrop for three years without ever speaking to the fellow in the room across the hall. This makes it difficult, sometimes, to borrow things like corkscrews, and has been interpreted by other Houses as a dangerously anti-social condition. Puritans regard it as a healthy, live-and-let-live attitude, and seem to prefer it to the more closely integrated House life elsewhere...
...limiting itself, said Trammell, to buying up a few expensive shows "for this season at the expense of the future." That other network, he noted, had had to borrow $5,000,000 to bring off its coups. And besides, radio couldn't be "satisfied indefinitely with the same material, the same performers, and the same programs." But NBC was nonetheless glad to be keeping some of its own: Fibber McGee & Molly, Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Bob Hope, "Duffy's Tavern." Trammell had also thrown together, he revealed, 30 fresh programs, which will employ such well-known stars...