Word: lends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lampy's old Ibis for fifteen years has graced the back staircase of Notman's Studio, being occasionally brought forth into the light to lend an air of authority and the supernatural to the annual picture of the board...
Just often enough to lend variety to these daily reports, word comes of a big trade. The great Hornsby is obtained by the sacrifice of three other players, and at once newspaper sporting editors break into violent print over the inevitable salvation or destruction caused the team by the deal. The argument goes on without results, and will continue to do so until that April, day when the teams return. Then facts replace theories and the crack of the bat announces the beginning of a new year. For spring has not really come until the mayor throws out the ball...
Distance does not lend enchantment to bonds, for Canadian and Newfoundland issues of comparable intrinsic merit sell higher. U. S. bankers, it is true, have come to look upon their northern neighbors as a part of the financial fatherland, whereas Australia, with her vulnerable position in case of a great Pacific conflict, and her slightly rosy tint of political radicalism, is distinctly foreign. As a matter of history, Australia first came to Wall Street because London fell out with the legislators of Queensland* over a certain Land Amendment Act which taxed British pastoral investments despite agreements previously consummated which exempted...
That English Literature as a field of study does not lend itself so readily to the Harvard tutorial and divisional examination system as History or Philosophy or Economics will scarcely, be denied. But the writer of the article under consideration does not bring up the question of the inherent suitability of English as a field of college concentration; he rather implies that if some-how a different sort of contact were established between students and tutors, and if divisional were abolished that a new vigor and a new enthusiasm would spring up among the great legion of concentrators in English...
...this procession were a number of personages known to readers of sporting pages by familiar nicknames that lend themselves readily to the usages of headline writers. Each delegation carried the banner of its sport. At the high altar rail stood Baseball, and Boxing, and Horse Racing and the rest--and no fire came from heaven...