Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musician sat on a luxurious couch in great anxiety, not over the political situation, but over his financial affairs. He had piled one debt upon the other, and the climax had come when all his friends refused to advance him any more credit. "Men should be glad to lend to a genius like me," he thought, getting up and pacing the room...
More important than providing expression for a few House members, such debating teams would render a real service in making present-day problems of personal interest to the men along the River. In time such teams would inevitably make themselves a part of the House tradition, and lend to each of the seven a name as much to be desired as a reputation for good football teams or gay dances...
Representation on the general committee will be in proportion to the size and importance of any group which agrees to lend its support, it was announced. The executive council will be made up of five men on whose shoulders the management of the affair will fall...
...Disdainful of "gumchewers," he always chewed gum. Contemptuous of dead literature, he constantly held up Homer† as an example to TIME'S staff. Impatient of slow waiters, he disrupted many a staid restaurant by waving a napkin over his head to get attention. Generous, he would never lend a friend less than $5, said he was ashamed to ask for the return of a smaller...
...vast and fertile it could produce many stories not appropriate for TIME'S limited space. Hence, in 1930, FORTUNE was founded. Again, a few years later, several years of experiment in improving TIME'S and FORTUNE'S illustrations led to the conclusion that pictures could lend point to words and words to pictures but one had to be dominant...