Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Transport and Civil Aviation Minister John Boyd-Carpenter announced that government-owned British Overseas Airways would honor its order for twelve Comet II's and five Comet Ill's, added that BOAC might even up its order with three more Comets. The Royal Air Force will also lend a helping hand by taking the remaining five Comet I's off BOAC's hands, use them for research and development...
Harvard is specially suited to offer a General Education course on Latin America. Described in the recent Faculty Report on Behavioral Sciences as "the finest collection of Latin Americana in all of the world's universities," Harvard's resources would lend themselves to the broad historical and cultural approach of a General Education course. The Anthropology Department and Peabody Museum have supported specialized research, and the history Department has even set up a professorship for the region filled by visiting lecturers from Latin American universities during the last two years...
...than normally meets the eye). At about the same time, Paramount's producer-director team of William Perlberg and George Seaton got word that Jennifer Jones, scheduled to play the title role in their next picture, The Country Girl, had become pregnant. They asked M-G-M to lend them Grace. This time M-G-M said no. Grace still gets angry when she thinks about it. She went to her agent, says Perlberg, and told him: "If I can't do this picture, I'll get on the train and never come back...
This year, however, the University has failed to produce those upheavals which lend themselves to the turgid word and the stuffy phrase. One could, perhaps, be pompous about the No Liquor at Football Games rule; we have been, as a matter of fact. But it is easier at this point to admit candidly that 1954-55 has been a year of inconsequentialities and review it with that in mind...
...manner. With loudspeakers amplifying the orchestral sound onstage, his singers know the music so well that they rarely have to watch the conductor. Consequently, the staging has the flexibility and coherence often lacking in opera. Another important concession to dramatic values is the use of translations. English does not lend itself really well to the rapid-fire arias of Bartolo and Figaro, but in recitatives it becomes invaluable for following nuances of the plot. Apart from the language change, Mr. Goldovsky adheres to the composer's intentions. Rosina, for instance, is sung by a mezzo-soprano as Rossini first planned...