Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houses, with the exception of Lowell, are graduates. Such of these men who have been resident in the House in their undergraduate days provide a spirit of continuity to the House Plan. They aid in incorporating the best of the House ideals into the new members, and lend an air of maturity, perhaps intellectuality, to House functions. The graduate's outlook, backed by college experience here or abroad, is bound to be interesting to the undergraduate. Contacts between graduate and undergraduate are a palliative for the frequent failure of the tutors in making many personal contacts with the students...
Heart of the Robinson measure was a billion-dollar Emergency Agricultural Refinance Corp. This agency would lend individual farm owners up to $10,000 each at 3% interest on a second mortgage. With the money the borrowers would buy off other creditors, pay delinquent taxes, meet back interest on first mortgages and otherwise get squared away financially for a long pull...
...hoped that the enforced curtailment of Syracuse University's intercollegiate program of sports will lend emphasis to the already developed intramural athletic schedule of events. If we have been taught to judge physical training in American institutions of higher education upon the basis of packed stadiums and over-paid coaches, then we cannot resent the fact that the most harrowing economic depression in history has served to jolt us loose from this superficial concept...
...Price, Waterhouse unearthed operating profits of only $40,000,000 including "a number of items the genuineness of which is doubtful." Thus in the booming 20's Ivar Kreuger could earn but 1½% on his capital. "Neither these earnings nor any other facts . . . lend any support to the view that Kreuger possessed ability so extraordinary as to warrant the grant to him of the freedom from control or disclosure of his actions which he enjoyed...
...Monstrous!" shouted Nationalist Deputy Louis Marin. "Are we going to lend money to a former enemy country when we have just refused to pay the United States which was our ally?" Unimpressed, the Chamber voted the Austrian Loan...