Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dons no costumes (only a Scotsman may perform in a kilt-others would be dressing up). The laws forbid game shooting (except rabbits), beekeeping demonstrations, milk deliveries between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., buying bread at the baker's after i :30 p.m. (although it is possible to borrow a loaf and pay later). A Briton may buy toothpaste but not a toothbrush, may have his shoes repaired but may not buy shoelaces. He is not supposed to ride in a boat (but excursion boats do a rollicking business at every seaside resort). He is not supposed to travel...
After member-bank borrowing hit a 21-year high in December, the Federal Reserve Board last week approved the tightening up of bank credit. Eight of the twelve FRB banks immediately boosted from 1¾ to 2% the interest rate at which member banks may borrow money from them. By thus putting a light brake on borrowing, the FRB sought to tighten the money supply, thereby help prevent any further inflation. Bankers were surprised not at the boost but at its timing. Most expected an increase last fall, when borrowing began to pick up, instead of last week, when...
...rich juices, his quiet, cultivated New England voice scarcely varying from paragraph to momentous paragraph. Any interruption jars him; he copes with it politely, lays it aside, and resumes from where he thinks he ought to be. After three hours, the visitor may rise to leave. "May I borrow two more minutes," says Bucky, "to complete the thought...
...there were seven special exhibits going at once. On the ground floor were a folk costume show and a comprehensive display of "The Weird"-no etchings, drawings and lithographs from the gruesome isth century genii of Albrecht Diirer to the willowy 20th century witches of Charles Addams ("May I borrow a cup of cyanide?"). Upstairs were other shows: the Metropolitan's 30 famed Rembrandts, a collection of miniature objects, earliest American landscapes, contemporary American watercolors, drawings and prints...
...been within 50 feet of her at the time. In the first trial in recorder's court, Ingram explained that he had mistaken blue-jeaned Willa Jean Boswell for one of her brothers, had started to follow her across a cornfield to ask if he could borrow the family trailer. When she took fright and ran, he turned back to his car. The judge, acting on the basis of a North Carolina law that says assault can be committed even without physical contact, sentenced Ingram to two years in jail (TIME. July 23, 1951). Last November, Ingram...