Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explanation by Secretary of the Treasury Vinson, of why paying the public debt will be no burden to U.S. taxpayers: "You lend to yourself, borrow from yourself, you pay interest to yourself on the money you borrowed from yourself, but which you yourself still have. To pay it back, merely take it from yourself and pay it to yourself...
...After it gets its president, the next job of the Bank will be to decide on how it will float the securities which are expected to supply a large part of the $8.8 billion which the Bank will raise for reconstruction loans. The Bank is not expected to lend directly from its own funds; it hasn't enough money. (Only $750,000 of the amount subscribed by 38 countries has been paid in so far.) So it can either buy foreign bonds-e.g., Czech bonds-and sell an equal amount of its own bonds to the world...
...House of Lords Britain's most revered document came up for examination. As the Lords voted to lend the Lacock Abbey copy of the Great Charter to the U.S., their eye fell on a yoo-odd-year-old mistake. "Hard on the plain man" (says Philologist H. W. Fowler) but dear to the heart of many a Briton is the age-old habit of spelling it "Magna Charta" and pronouncing it "Magna Karta." Last week the Lord Chancellor invited the Lords to drop the h. They...
...folks jack home. Between junkets in 1903, he switched to the Tribune. He hunted in Africa with Carl Akeley and Teddy Roosevelt, covered both sides in World War I, always saw to it that his contracts called for long vacations. That gave him spare ime to write books, lend an encouraging land to youngsters like Milton (Terry and the Pirates) Caniff...
...level Washington could best evaluate Halifax's long mission, and how well he had accomplished it-in Lend-Lease, joint command, victory and the possibility of United Nations. He had certainly done his best. History might yet surprise the newspapers by writing him down as one of the great ambassadors. The U.S. he was leaving would remember him as a good...