Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commanded respect and affection; in his patients the utmost confidence; and in students of medicine and young doctors, ardent devotion often close to hero-worship. He filled a high place in the medical world, not only because of his professional skill, but because of the unselfish spirit which lent the crowning light to a naturally charming personality. In the long illness which preceded his death the strength and beauty of his character was made even more clear to all who knew...
Scrimmages will hereafter be held every Friday, on the polo field of Robert Gould Shaw, 2nd, '93 at Newton, which has been lent to the malletmen for the fall season. Late this month two games will be played with a team from Danvers, coached by Samuel Hopkins, a former Yale captain...
...Lent, i. e., festival...
...chatted in squeaky, steamy voices and pooh-poohed the advances of young, sleek, oily, lusty freight-pushers. The Exhibition began when some Indians, who were really porters and ticket takers on the Baltimore & Ohio, went whooping loudly past the grandstand. Then came stage coaches, one of which had been lent by Comedian Fred Stone. Then, on the loop of tracks, came a reproduction of Tom Thumb, the first of all steam engines, driven by an imitation of its inventor (Peter Cooper), dressed in breeches too bright for a hard-working engineer. After this a proud little ponyish Yorkshire engine that...
Another boy constructed a glider and flew 1,000 feet off a California cliff. He was Lloyd W. Bertaud, aged 12. Grown-up he became an Army instructor in the War; an airmail pilot, a stunt flyer. Five years ago he went into the air with Miss Helen Lent of New York, and Belvin W. Maynard, "the flying-parson." The Reverend Maynard shouted a service into their ears; they came down to earth as Mr. & Mrs. Bertaud. Last week Lloyd Bertaud came down again, but not to earth. He splashed into the ocean, disappeared...