Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July a fantastic note was introduced into the proceedings when a buxom mysterious lady known as Jeannette M. Lewis suddenly appeared in Montreal and announced that she was prepared to lend Newfoundland $109,000,000, presumably taking Labrador in security (TIME. Aug. 10). Miss Lewis disappeared and newspapers were about to dismiss the entire story when she reappeared in St. John's in September and made the same offer over again...
...hand while prices do not go up noticeably until a speculative boom has set in. They point out further that the lowering of the discount rate has had apparently no stimulating effect on business, although it offers a very powerful incentive to borrow. Still, the banks are begging to lend, but nobody wants to borrow. From these facts the economists draw the justifiable conclusion that commercial activity creates credit and not credit, business activity...
HERE is another writer who professes to "expose" the evils of college football, this time at Harvard. At least, there is no other way of interpreting a mythical "Elite College," outside of Boston, with enough Harvard traditions thrown in to lend an air of truthfulness to the tale. Cambridge becomes "Oldston," The Yard becomes the "Campus," but the sacred Boston Symphony and a few Harvard courses (notably Music 4, which masquerades as "Harmonics 8"), retain their identities...
...announcement yesterday that the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art will disband after its current exhibition because of lack of funds can only be viewed with regret. The organization in just beginning to realize its aims and purposes. Collectors are new willing to lend their masterpieces, and this year public interest in the project has grown enormously. There have been planned for the winter some unusually fine exhibitions, which unfortunately must be curtailed...
...wheat and other commodities and so do away with employment. This is no way out, and this attitude does much harm. They say today that America would make money, but they would repudiate these benefits if they themselves were in any way dangerously involved in war." We should not lend Japan money to carry on its war, the speaker added, in case we should have to go to war to save our loan, and thus become accomplices...