Word: lends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only wrought great changes in the educational facilities of Germany, but it severed the bond of sympathy between the universities of the conflicting nations. Oxford still was able to lend its tutorial system to Harvard. Heidelberg dropped from sight. Nor could the chaos which followed peace in Germany prove any more tempting to foreign interests than the state of actual war. Sofa to say, that America would ever treat with importance the conditions extant in German universities while the mark was tied to a toy balloon...
...Lend me ten bucks...
...They spoke little. Premier Briand was thinking of his successful 1905 fight to oust the Church from its French properties, of his long struggle to keep separate Church and State in France. President Doumergue thought of his Huguenot ancestors buried in Provence. Here he was, a Protestant, about to lend his office to the robing of a Catholic prelate. Yet his countrymen are mostly Catholics, although by no means altogether dutifully so, and it would be politic to ignore last spring's imbroglio with the Vatican (see TIME, Feb. 9 et seq.) which has gradually faded...
...panic impends"?such was the concurrent drift of remarks made a fortnight ago by Walter Stabler, Comptroller of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and of a wise old Manhattan banker, Clarence H. Kelsey, who has seen all the "hard times" in 40 years. They added that they would lend no more money for New York City building...
When men of known worth lend their names to unpopular causes, observers are apt to look closely to see if they can discover some value, hitherto overlooked, in the thing advocated. Among unpopular issues, one of the least favored is the campaign of certain churchmen to close all theatres, playgrounds, amusement parks on Sundays, and limit the amusement of the public to churchgoing, which these churchmen consider amusement enough. Last week the "Lord's Day alliance," as these churchmen call their association, held its annual meeting in Manhattan, appointed a committee to report judges and county officials who belittle...