Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the libraries will only lend books out overnight this year, librarians will not strictly insist on the 10 o'clock in the evening to 9 in the morning deadline...
Although the content of the show strikes frequent depths of trite polemic, the zealousness of the 300-odd performers, many traveling over the globe for MRA, more than lends an excitement sufficient in itself to justify the expenditure of an evening and to pose the pressing question of what MRA will mean given real momentum. The idealistic drive of this movement finds rare equal at the present moment. In utter seriousness the show's participants call themselves a "task force." They feel themselves engaged in a crusade to save civilization. MRA's overriding interest rests not in its feverish adherents...
...million, only $16 million was for Lend-Lease supplies (to which Russia had taken title before the congressional deadline last January). Another $32 million was in supplies turned over to UNRRA before U.S. contributions were stopped for Europe in March. By midsummer, both Lend-Lease and UNRRA exports had all but stopped. The bulk of Russia's purchases had been made in the free American market;* in return, the U.S. had got such needed imports as manganese and chrome, such luxuries as sables and Persian lamb...
...Joyce joined Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists. (In time he broke away to form his own British National Socialist League.) And so just before the war he fled to Germany, to lend to the treason of ideas his vibrant voice. For this he was hanged...
...come for a quick look at history before the Second General Assembly of the United Nations adjourned. A group of children clustered around a counter as excitedly as though it displayed candy and comics rather than U.N. literature. A tall, blond boy jumped up & down. "Sammy," he cried, "Sammy, lend me a nickel...