Word: lends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time of settlement amounted, with interest, to $4,600,000,000. In settling this account, we agreed to accept interest at the rate of 3% and 3½% during 62 years while the principal was being paid up. Meanwhile, the U. S. which borrowed the money to lend to Britain, is paying a greater amount of interest on its own obligations. The following table shows the comparative amounts of interest on the 62 year payment plan...
...Love Song. A size 15, EE operetta set itself up at the Century under the guidance of the Messrs. Shubert and managed to entertain its audience considerably. Hundreds of people and masses of scenery do not lend themselves to subtlety. The Love Song is not subtle. But it supplies full money's worth...
...waiting for Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., to arrive from Washington. On the other side of Manhattan Island, 4,000 people-said to be the largest assemblage ever to attend a New York exhibition-waited for him also. For this Ambassador had promised to lend his presence to the opening of the Retrospective Exhibition of British Paintings, under the auspices of the English-speaking Union...
Just as the form of the sonnet seems to lend itself to reflections on love and beauty, so does the very lift and swing of the limericks suggest ideas which would be absolutely impossible on the printed page. One cannot imagine Tennyson producing limericks Or Milton. The thought is revolving. On the other hand, the conjunction of Rabelais and blank verse is equally incongruous...
Afterwards, he considered establishing an anti-slavery paper at Washington but finally decided on Boston instead. At Boston, no church would lend him a place to lecture, so he lectured in the meeting place of a body of "infidels" and there, in 1831 (at 26), established the Liberator. He went twice to England on behalf of the cause, founded the American Anti-Slavery Society, was mobbed in the streets of Boston and put in a cell to preserve his life-but he continued to publish the Liberator...