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Word: lend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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What actually happened in that interview does not easily lend itself to investigation. Bowman says the recruiter told her the firm once had "a gal like you" working for them--"she was just like you, only shorter"--and that the last black who worked for them now works for Clorox--"Isn't that funny, a black working for a bleach company?" John H. Morrison, the recruiter, categorically denies the offensive remarks. The matter, then, could only be decided in terms of Bowman's word against Morrison...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: A Case of Frustration | 10/20/1976 | See Source »

Tufts president, Jean Mayer, former master of Dudley House, was on hand to throw out the ceremonial first frisbee and lend support to his team...

Author: By Donald Berk, | Title: Tufts Squeaks by Harvard In Frisbee Team's Debut | 10/19/1976 | See Source »

Mary Travers: Mary's quivering soprano should lend itself ideally to a disco version of "Puff the Disco Dragon." Symphony Hall, Sunday, October...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: rock | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

...Besides, no one will lend you the books, especially the way the Gov department is, so you have to buy them all," he added...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: First Day Back at the Coop: Jumbo Rebate, Big Book Buy | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

...structure of the building doesn't really lend itself to any of the bureaucratic rigidity of a Holyoke Center or William James, anyway. Tucked away in a relatively untravelled corner of the University, the small, dark old fraternity house has open stairwells, crowded offices that open onto the halls, and connecting passageways between offices. It would be hard to stay aloof from the general traffic, even though the chaos does sometimes make it hard to get much work done, Toland says...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: 60 Boylston Street: Profile of a building | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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