Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bancors in Lease-Lend...
Over here in Australia, Lend-Lease-in-reverse is really Keynes' Bancor system working itself out quite effectively; at least, that is the way it appears to me. For example: America supplies Australia with materiel; Australia pays back by supplying the American forces with food. Does this balance out? Not yet, as munitions cost more than mutton...
...vindicated above the English Channel. Not even when his planes were winning Schneider Trophies (they won four) did England's financiers realize his full value. Not even after his eye-opening visit to Germany in 1935 and his meeting with the brilliant Willy Messerschmitt would the British Government lend him its ear. It was an "eccentric" individualist, Lady Houston, who finally put ?100,000 behind Mitchell's fantastic notion that England desperately needed a plane "faster than anything on earth, tougher than any other fighter, and able to turn on a sixpence...
Mama Means Man. Laubach believes in teaching individuals, or very small groups (adults hate to look foolish), and starts with syllables, not words -(most languages, unlike English, are phonetic, lend themselves to syllabic teaching). Once an adult learns symbols for syllables, he is well on his way to reading. Laubach began teaching their dialect (Maranaw) to the Moslem Moros of Mindanao by joshing them into memorizing the appearance of ma, then pointing to the chart where mama occurs. When the Moro says mama, he has read the Maranaw for man. After as little as half an hour, a bright Moro...
...Sure, I lend my customers money and give them my clothes. Oh, sometimes they die, but usually they show...