Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...float," i.e., uncollected checks in transit between commercial banks, for which bankers get an automatic Fed credit. This was used by mem ber banks to cut their debt to the Fed by $158 million and made possible further borrowings from the Fed, thus could give banks more cash to lend...
...latest stratagem employed by the Harvard Dramatic Club to advertise their production of "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" is a poster displaying Gothic arches. The arches lend an Elizabethan atmosphere and at the same time utilize perspective such that the word "whore" is barely visible to casual passers-by. If they could do it, the HDC would like to do away with this world altogether, since it has delayed printing orders, cancelled window displays, and prompted the hasty removal of posters from utility poles around the Square...
...Former Ambassador to France C. Douglas Dillon went $38,000 over estimates to pay $92,500 for Monet's Woman in a Garden, will lend it to the Metropolitan Museum for extended exhibition this week...
DEVELOPMENT LOAN FUND, new U.S. program to lend $300 million in fiscal 1958 to spur private enterprise abroad (TIME, Sept. 30), will be bossed by Dempster Mclntosh, 61, now U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. A Republican and foreign-trade expert, he was president of Philco International Corp. from...
...Threatens to trap her. Refusing her father's money, the young innocent rushes to her lover, who promptly walks out on her when he hears of her incredible folly in spurning a fortune. The book's prevailing color is grey; no touch of humor is added to lend palatability to its provincial harshness. The rewards lie in a firm, penetrating style, a relentless storyteller's determination to pursue the shabby impulses of humanity even if they lead to tragedy...