Word: lend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crisis was at hand in Massachusetts in the election we have just witnessed. Woodrow Wilson, the leader of this nation, asked the people of the United States to lend him strength and support by sending to the National legislature those men who were unquestionably in sympathy with the methods which have won the President a place in the world's history as a leader of the destinies of nations...
...lend your money to the Government, you may be quite sure that it is going to be used for some national purpose--to prosecute the war successfully, to care for, equip, arm, and supply our soldiers in France, to be used by our Navy in ridding the seas of the murderous U boats...
...spend your money even with the belief that by putting it into the channels of trade others into whose hands it comes will lend it to the Government, you will have done something the patriotism of which may be very questionable...
...when you lend your money to the Government instead of spending it, you will at once lessen the drain to a certain extent on our country's resources, its material, its labor, and its transportation facilities, and in addition you supply your Government with money to be used in winning...
...admission of other college men will lend the corps that same spirit of rivalry and co-operation that made the fame of Barre, and we hope that the number and quality of students will be as high as it was in 1917. In addition, opening enlistments to preparatory and high school graduates who pass their June entrance examinations will not only give those men an opportunity to spend a useful six weeks of military preparation, but will also bring them in close and intimate contact with the University which they are to enter in the fall...