Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presence at Harvard of truly brilliant men can lend intellectual vigor to all these who come into contact with them. No more now than ever does Harvard or any other University, we hope, have lasting use for the dried as dust pedant who can get along amiably enough with books but not at all with people or life in the world outside...
quot;You know what I think of you bankers? I think you're a swell lot of guys. Some of you are afraid of your own shadow and wouldn't lend $10 on a $20 bill, and I'm looking right at. . . ." Mr. Jones stopped but eyed a fellow citizen of his native Houston. The bankers roared. "You notice I didn't say $20 gold piece," the burly Texan added. "I don't know what is ahead either but I know what is behind us. I know there's plenty of meat...
This is only half the story. When he finally embarks on his career, he must work for at least ten years before he earns sufficient income on which to support a wife and family. Consequently, should the ordinary Harvard graduate marry before he is 33, parents must lend their financial assistance or he and his family must live like paupers...
...Ethiopia and thus enable them to be pawned at a fabulous profit by Stavisky? "I had no doubt of their value!" swore Defendant Farault last week. "Ah, no! I never had any river pebbles in my hands!" Why did 75-year-old retired General Joseph Bardi de Fourtou lend his name as "front" to one of the Stavisky companies? On the stand last week the nervous old General protested his innocence to the point of dragging in, apparently without a scrap of pertinence, French Premier Pierre Laval. "I had complete confidence in Stavisky because so many important persons were mentioned...
...elected to the board, the situation is the same. The routine details of publishing and editing the paper have been developed through long experience. Yet the new ideas, the new impetus which he may lend the paper are things which keep it alive and vigorous...