Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...describe Dr. Van Dusen in terms of a business executive, leading the "fragmented and busy life of a corporation president," is to present us with a picture of less than half the man . . . Your article might lend support to the misconception of those who-particularly in Europe-think American Protestantism is too much preoccupied with the business and administrative aspects of the church's life...
...playing vassal to a new thane this time. Scatterbrained Bertie Wooster, for once apprehensive about the economic future of the British upper classes, has packed himself off to a home-economics school to learn all about cooking, sock-mending and polishing his own boots. Jeeves is on internal lend-lease to William, ninth Earl of Towcester, an amiable chap with "a marked shortage of the little gray cells ... It was generally agreed that whoever won the next Nobel Prize, it would not be Bill Towcester...
...same time, Robert W. DuBose '55 asked the Council to lend the League a sum of money "which will be used to nourish and further a group that has ideas and standards which will be of great benefit to the students of Harvard University." The foregoing remarks were made public in a letter to the Student Council...
...Roach's production this year will top the combined footage of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. Right from the first, says Roach "it was plain that this hungry TV medium could only be fed with film." But the casualties were high. Banks refused to lend money. The major studios refused to let their stars appear in TV shows. Of some 500 embryo TV filmmakers, only 46 survive, and only half a dozen make sizable profits. Roach aims solely at producing entertainment by assembly-line methods, says: "It's like the auto business...
...recognition only sanctions the group's legitimate activities. Since any so-called "scouting" would be done secretly, the question of recognition is unimportant here. Official sanction is wanted to lend emphasis to the club's statements. The aegis of the Harvard Conservative League is far more newsworthy outside the University than an individual's name...