Word: lended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certain instances, it is clearly inappropriate for Harvard to accommodate every possible viewpoint. Possible examples are when a speaker professes racial hatred, when the premise of the discussion is unfounded or irrelevant, or when the sponsors of the debate want to hold it at Harvard to lend credibility to their own political agenda, not to enlighten or instruct...
...that administrators should allow every group to hold a conference on campus. Harvard should not lend its limited resources to a speaker whose theories have absolutely no basis in fact. Likewise, administrators should not feel compelled to publicize an irrelevant topic. And Harvard should not accommodate speakers who espouse doctrines such as race-hatred...
McKibben's arguments are most devastating when he tries to be frank and objective. He freely acknowledges that he does not know how the world will actually be different in the post-nature era, if at all. Such observations may seem equivocal, but they lend force to McKibben's arguments. No one knows what will happen, McKibben says; nothing is definite. When a world beyond humanity's reach no longer exists, there will be no security...
...instrument Woody uses these days is a patched-together twelve-key Rampone, made in Italy in about 1890. Like many of the horns in Woody's collection, it was supplied by fellow clarinetist Davern, who picked it up in a New York City pawn shop. Davern once offered to lend Woody a horn that had belonged to the great New Orleans clarinetist Albert Burbank, another of Woody's idols. Woody hesitated. "What if somebody steals it?" he said. "So what?" replied Davern. "They'll probably steal it while I'm playing it," said Woody...
WORLD: East Germany's leaders seem willing to lend an ear to the nation's newly vocal opposition movement...