Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weakest is its dialogue, which is too seldom really bright and too often near-neighbor to the gag. Fortunately, a number of lines that were not born witty achieve a certain wit through the adroitness of the cast. Margaret Sullavan, Claude Dauphin, and Robert Preston as the tycoon, lend a certain airy charm, provide a certain steady carbonation...
...evils of white supremacy or the inherent equality of all races. On these racial questions however, they do need to apply the same criterion to propaganda put out by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as they would to any other interest group's, and to lend the South's position the same consideration they give to the Other side in any History of Government course...
...these professions hardly matched the ardent public welcome Nehru bestowed on Khrushchev and Bulganin -a performance which, if it did nothing else, could only serve to lend respectability to Russia's leaders in the eyes of India's millions...
...posts centered around these major assignments: 1934-35, a division administrator, then a special assistant to the administrator, and then chief administrative officer of NRA: 1940-41, an executive in the Office of Production Management; 1941, special missions to London and then to Moscow for President Roosevelt; 1941-42, Lend-Lease expediter in London with rank of minister; 1943-46, Ambassador to Russia; 1946, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; 1946-48, Secretary of Commerce; 1948-50, roving EGA ambassador in Europe; 1950-51, Special Assistant to the President; 1951-53, Director of Mutual Security...
Kenneth Bainbridge, chairman of the Physics Department and professor of Physics, said that previous attempts to have tutorial in physics used the time and money of the physics faculty inefficiently. In addition, he pointed out that the exact sciences like physics "don't lend themselves to group discussions as well as the more subjective sciences...