Word: lends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scripps' method of building newspapers was to lend money to promising men-young men-desirous of entering new publishing territory. If they made good, he had control of their property and policies. If they failed, they might pay him back whenever they could. He was not an insistent creditor. He counted his judgment as much a part of the investment as their honor. And it was against his instincts to "sell out"; once he had built something, he kept it. He did not barter, destroy, amalgamate and otherwise treat newspapers and newspapermen as impersonal bits of merchandise in the manner...
...discarding his hard driving game and attacking Baker's weakness on high, slow lobs to the back hand. The Crimson number one man pulled up to even terms with the champion by this strategy but Baker finally solved this new style of offense and forged again into the lend to win the final game...
...annually on the Potomac by power boats. Many Americans were doubtless misled and shocked by so great an impairment to the President's small private fortune. It is customary in such "donations" for the association supervising the race to provide the cup and for the President merely to lend his name so that it may be called "The President...
...commission last week came to a halt while the Greeks cabled Athens for instructions. Their opening gambit had been declined and they wanted to know what move to make next. They offered to fund the Greek debt (a principal of $15,500,000) if the U. S. would lend them $32,500,000 additional- the remainder of a credit which was originally extended. The U. S. commission politely but firmly represented the impossibility of loaning Greece any more money even to get the original debt funded. Hence the delay while Athens was asked what the next Greek move would...
...place for academic work. The Lowell and Child Memorial Libraries and the Farnsworth Room are evidence that special collections of books are not impossible. The vast silences of great reading rooms and the anatomical appearance of glass-floored shadowy stacks do not provide an atmosphere where knowledge will easily lend itself to being humanized. Here may be another case where American universities can wisely look abroad for counsel...