Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London fortnight ago the House of Commons voted, after much grumbling, to lend 100,000,000 schillings ($14,000,000) to Austria, this being Great Britain's share of the League loan totaling $43,000,000 to the Government of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Jan. 2). The Netherlands had meanwhile voted its share. Last week in Paris Premier Paul-Boncour asked the Chamber & Senate to chip in France's 100,000,000 schillings. Was this quite ethical...
Arrested in New York on two grand larceny indictments was eccentric Jeanette M. Lewis, 50, stocky, grey-haired onetime Greenwich Village restaurant cook who was given a loud hail ("Savior of Labrador") and quick farewell by the Press when she offered to lend Newfoundland $109,000.000 during its 1931 financial crisis (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931). A Brooklyn druggist said he had paid her $4,000 for a quarter-interest in twelve Newfoundland mines, later found they were owned by Montreal's Henry Cosgrove Bellew. Snapped Financier Lewis, leaving court: "When I get ready to talk there will be plenty...
...joys of classic lietrature are by no means most evident in a course which consists to a large extent of translation, but the instructors who lend their efforts to Latin B make the best of a difficult piece of work. Admittedly, the material which comes to them from Latin A and from preparatory schools is too much bound by fealty to the dictionary to appreciate to the fullest the sweet words of Horace and Catullus. This granted, the course is, from a cultural aspect, one of the most valuable of the many language courses open to Freshmen. The second half...
...just here that the scholar can lend his aid; and no finer way for him to do so could be conceived than that furnished by the Lowell Institute. Through the means provided by the Institute, the man who has studied long on a problem is enabled to place directly before the people the fruits of his efforts. Thus scholarship joins hands with the persons of more practical bent to the end of a safer and better progress...
...Warren is not. Lizzie Praskins has the face, manners and characteristics of a rat and she starts a run on the Warren bank by squeaking for her money out of a desire to be troublesome. The run is disastrous because young John Warren has been so stupid as to lend the bank's best bonds to parties who do not wish to give them back. All this reduces Maggie Warren to noble penury. She sells her house and furnishings, goes with her dog, Mutt, to board at Mrs. Praskins'. W7hen humiliated into leaving she makes the gesture...