Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deputy Lend-Lease expediter, Douglas hustled off to London, in a few weeks discovered where the bottleneck was. For lack of shipping, war material was piling up at ports and warehouses in the U.S. Douglas came back to Washington as economic adviser to the War Shipping Administration, later as deputy. He worked out a system of cargo allocations and ship routings that soon cracked the bottleneck. In 1944, with the plaudits of shipping men and the "warm regards" of Franklin Roosevelt, Douglas decided the job was done...
Immediate objective of the Choir was to lend Yuletide atmosphere to an impending House Christmas play. While rehearsing the traditional hymns and narrative songs, including "White Christmas," the Dunces began to loosen up and let go, and soon found themselves at various Dunster and other House dances...
...wintry evening, the Dunces entrenched at Jim Cronin's tavern and proceeded to lend the patronage some well-tuned culture. Cronin's, which likes to compare itself to Mory's down at Yale, soon decided that it would not institutionalize the Dunces, as its Eli counterpart had glorified the Whiffenpoofs...
Like many a U.S. soldier, Patton approvingly noted the energy of the then well-fed German civilians. ". . . I saw five Germans, three women and two men, re-roofing a house. They were not even waiting for Lend-Lease, as would be the case in several other countries I could mention." Later Patton's regard for Nazi efficiency resulted in his loss of the Third Army command in Bavaria. He persisted to the end that he was right. In his last entry, three months before his death, he wrote: "The one thing which I could not say then, and cannot...
...administratively, the Institute for Advanced Studies offers an opportunity for "post-postgraduate" work to a select group of 30-odd top U. S. scholars. These men freely elect their mentors from a faculty of 16 in an environment stripped of lectures, examinations degrees. Figures such as Albert Einstein lend the stature of their thought. But "the most important thing that can come out of the Institute," wrote then director Frank Aydelotte in 1943, "is not the absolute contribution of an Einstein, great as it may be, so much as the general flow of attitudes toward study and research which...