Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After long consultation with the head men in the Greek treasury (who had only $5,700 to spend), the dressmaker had cut his original specifications from 22 to 15 new garments, but he obligingly helped make over some of the Queen's old things, and even agreed to lend her a fur coat. After all, Desses is of Greek descent himself, as well as an old friend of the Queen. The final collection included a dozen hats and a dozen pairs of shoes, but Desses was far from pleased with the meager turnout. "I just don't know...
Yale followed her Ivy sister's lead by building the Bowl in 1914, an even vaster, more capacious structure than the Stadium. And then every major college in the lend joined the act. Professionalism in football was on its way: mammoth stadiums rose everywhere, the game itself became a giant...
...around 1800, an already notorious teen-age violinist arrived in Leghorn to play a concert-with no violin. His name was Nicolo Paganini, and he had pawned his fiddle to pay off a pressing gambling debt. A wealthy merchant offered to lend him a matchless Guarneri del Gesu and, when the performance was over, refused to take it back. "The Guarneri is yours," he cried. "My hands shall never profane the violin which you have touched...
...Monsanto Chemical Co. and Massachusetts' National Research Corp. have developed a speedy new process which bypasses the intermediate step of converting ore into titanium "sponge," instead produces titanium crystals that can be melted directly into ingots. The government is about ready to let a long-term purchase contract, lend a good part of the estimated $60 million needed for a mass production plant...
...bursar's card in my shoe?" worried one bandsman. Finally, the band manager returned. "We need $250 bail. Give us what you can spare, so we can get out of here," he said. There was a simultaneous movement toward wallets. "Here's twenty, is that enough?" "I can lend five...