Word: lends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country, wrote of him: "Mr. William A. White . . . was among the earliest of our collectors to gather the choice and alluring volumes of the great Elizabethans. His judgment was excellent and he had a vivid understanding of this golden period, equalled by few scholars: He did not hesitate to lend his finest volumes to any student who showed an intelligent interest in English literature...
...President Lowell states that the experiment at Harvard has shown the most gratifying results. Whether or not a reading period of two weeks duration would fit into the Dartmouth curriculum is, of course, beside the point at this late date. There are, quite naturally, many courses that do not lend themselves gracefully to any such radical change as this would entail, coming as it would in the nature of an after thought. But where such an innovation would be possible, that is in such courses that are pot, by their very nature, kept to rigid lines of study. I should...
Blair & Co. of Manhattan Hayden, Stone & Co. of Manhattan Hemphill, Noyes & Co. of Manhattan Knight, Dysart & Gamble of St. Louis J. C. Willson & Co. of Louisville, Ky. Lend, Goodwin & Tucker, Inc., of San Francisco. -Curtiss cut the first melon several weeks...
...creation, is far more satisfying than the second. The chapters which take the world up to the dawn historic civilization are written convincingly, with graphic power. There is no diminution of strength later, but the mass of fact and conflicting forces which makes up modern history does not lend itself to sketchy treatment. To dismiss the Renaissance and the Reformation in sixty pages is not easy, but with his evolutionary theme supplying the background the author handles the task without smacking too much of the encyclopedia. For study, the book is not adequate; for entertainment and instructive reading...
Well posted observers spotted instantly the non-truth of this last headline. They recalled that during the slump of the Belgian franc (TIME, March 29, 1926, et seq.), the Government of Belgium flatly rejected a proposal by Captain Loewenstein that he should lend $50,000,000 "without interest" to save the franc, but only upon certain all too shrewd conditions...