Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standard Oil of New Jersey. For some reason especially persistent has been the rumor that Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey will lend Spain $100,000,000 at no interest in return for the oil monopoly. Last week Spain "gave assurance" that it has been made no such offer, and Standard's Walter Clark Teagle, in London, said the story was "made out of whole cloth...
...ponies were on the way over on the S. S. Minnetonka. Another foreign team, an extraordinary one made up of four brothers Ashton from Australia-Philip, Geoffrey, James, Robert-all about the same size, closely resembling each other, ranked at 26 goals, were on hand to see and lend color to the summer's events. At Sands Point, and on the spacious turf overlooked by the stone terrace and colonial portico of Piping Rock Club (see map, p. 25), test matches between candidates for the U. S. team went on with much earnestness. People watching from cars parked along...
...manufacturing monopoly. The supply in the U. S. was limited. Yet the new ships & men could not go to sea without eye-extensions. Knowing that many a German lens lay unused in U. S. private homes, the Navy Department launched a big advertising campaign, begged U. S. citizens to lend "eyes for the Navy." Thereupon 52,000 sextants, binoculars, telescopes were received at Washington, were distributed among the recruits. After the War the borrowed "eyes" were returned to their owners-all but 697 pairs of binoculars, 295 telescopes, nine sextants, whose owners the Navy has yet to locate after twelve...
...television possibilities were publicized by General Electric in conjunction with its report of progress. Example: manless bombing planes equipped with television so that operators in a base camp can watch for an auspicious moment to discharge the plane's load of explosives. To lend substance, Dr. Alexanderson announced his departure for Panama "at the invitation of the Navy ... to study some of the practical conditions for the realization of such ideas...
...charge of the Student Council elections is doubly regrettable since the five men now serving on the board should, according to all pass-words of democracy, be those most desirable in the eyes of the class of 1931. Unfortunately, for democracy, not more than three of them can legally lend their services next year...