Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From my hazy memory of school, my little old knotty skull was so busy entertaining cube roots of things and the preterit of foreign languages and that old "whan that Aprile" business from Chaucer that I didn't really have time to lend my learned opinions to Mr. Roosevelt's new brain trust. For one thing, I didn't really have time to lend my learned opinions to Mr. Roosevelt's new brain trust. For one thing, I didn't have any opinions. Robert Ruark, New York World Telegram and Sun, November...
...Boston last spring, the Student Council created an ad hoc committee of undergraduate organizations to help determine student opinion of the investigations. Because the Council hesitated to take the responsibility of speaking for the College, it felt that such a committee would be sufficiently representative of undergraduate opinion to lend power to its statements. And although instrumental in the committee's creation, the Council relegated itself to a position equal to that of the other member organizations...
Moore said that although the HYRC did not formally lend its support to the Committee's statement backing President Pusey's stand on McCarthyism, it did not state any disapproval...
...Council motion last spring that established the Committee said that it could lend its name to any action providing that all the member organizations concurred in approving it. According to Moore, since the HYRC did not express any disapproval, the Committee had a right to call the statement representative of student opinion...
...Committee head called "absurd" Moore's statement that the HYRC did not lend its support after the Council issued the statement last Monday night because it had no time to consider such a step...