Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theses on such subjects as "French Revolutionary Legislation on Illcgitimacy, 1789-1804" or "Cutover Old Field Pine Lands in Central New England" swell the stacks hidden in the gloomy recesses of Widener, and furnish excellent material for research along such lines, if any is contemplated. They do not, however, lend either to the University Press, or to the College, that general interest and recognition which one would expect as the due of the American counterpart of Oxford and Cambridge...
...finally thwarted when Aunt Louise and Uncle Tony move in with their out-of-work opera troupe. The troupe's star and manager (Michael Bartlett) decides to present an opera written by Tony for the amusement of Kentucky Derby crowds. Success depends upon getting Soprano Marian to lend her voice. She refuses. How the handsome manager-star finally wins her support in the lavish spectacle solves both her amatory and the family's financial troubles...
Messrs. Edgell and Tomita knew their project was a success when Emperor Hirohito let it be known that he was willing to lend several of his own personal pieces to Boston, would permit the exporting of a certain number of "National Treasures" from state museums. A deluge of offers followed. Director Edgell, whose personal knowledge of Japanese art is rudimentary, left the selection to his associate Mr. Tomita, spent 26 days drinking tea and saki with Japanese wrestlers, silk tycoons, bankers, enjoyed himself immensely...
Till after noon she kept her hardly-held dignity. Then, at the news that shrimp were running, that prices had gone up, that the fleet was shorthanded, Mme Toussaint cast decorum to the winds, bundled her brood into the boat, the Six Little Brothers, set off to lend her efficient aid. It was late that night before the weary fishermen returned, to watch Mme Toussaint and Jean jump over the broomstick together. And as the overworked engine of the Six Little Brothers had broken down, the bride and groom never...
Under the Jones-White Act of 1928, the Government agreed to lend shipping companies up to 75% of construction costs, pay them fat mail contracts to subsidize operations. This indirect subsidy was still not enough to put U. S. ships on an equal competitive footing with directly subsidized foreign liners...