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Word: lends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although interested in medicine, she would not allow a male doctor to attend her. When her graduating gown was delayed, and a tactless youth offered to lend her his, she almost fainted. "What? Lady graduate in man's gown?" she said, and went back to China a devout Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wise Wives | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...support an avowardly Christian programme. On the other hand it cannot be questioned that the present world situation makes an appeal to Christian students for the furtherance of the aims of the S. F. F. entirely justified. I feel sure that there are many in Harvard University who will lend their support to this attempt to foster "some sort of intelligent cooperation and understanding" among the students of the world on this basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL-- | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...that movements such as these. If actively discouraged, ignored, or condemned, become subversive. They tend, in other words, to be merely destructive criticism, or wild-eyed and impractical idealism: The very fear which prompts the suppression complex is realized. The more professional educators realize this, and the more they lend their active interest and encouragement, the more this undergraduate movement will be productive of sane, practical, and constructive work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TUFT'S EXPERIMENT | 1/18/1927 | See Source »

...part of the soldier De Laubry, saved from execution by the intervention of du Barry, M. Rolla Norman is often more convincing than Sorel, but it is she who seems to lend fire to his lovemaking, aiding him to reach heights of ardor which she herself does not attain...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/12/1927 | See Source »

...Perry '28 with a ventriloquist act. C. E. Henderson '28 on the piano and the goofus, and A. W. Lend '29 on the violin, will be the individuals to perform tonight. A number by a string quartette and a song by a double quartette will complete the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS PLAY AT JAMAICA PLAIN | 1/6/1927 | See Source »

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