Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman of queenly dignity which never unbends yet never repels, and possessed of an invaluable countenance which seldom smiles yet is always graciously reassuring. She does not dominate the King, as is vulgarly supposed; for his genuinely strong will and active judgment are at variance with the softened expression lent to his face by a silky beard...
...controversy regarding over-emphasis of football in the American college? God for bid that we should ever be allowed to forget it. The Herald notes with a great deal if interest that the University of Miami, age one year, whose Freshman class of 200 attends classes in a hotel lent by a real estate development concern, seeks to obtain a fund of $500,000 to build up a football stadium...
...market has been ripe to break for months, of course, but none the less Dr. Schacht brought about the crash, He called the leading German banking representatives into his office and informed them quietly that they had lent too much money to speculative market operators. This condition could not be remedied, as would ordinarily be the case, by raising the Reichsbank rate, because Dr. Schacht put the rate down from 6% to 5% last January, and considers that level necessitously expedient for reasons affecting his defense of the gold mark.* As a result there remained not sufficient sums...
...Rollins' football schedule for next autumn is the University of Miami,* which is said to have other attractions for athletes than scholastic enlightenment. The University of Miami is less than a year old and consists of some 200 freshmen who attend classes in a hotel lent by a real estate development company. And yet, Miamians saw fit recently to launch a drive for $500,000 to build a football stadium. "Building this stadium," said one publicist, "is the best possible way to prove to the North that Miami is not down and out, but is still going strong." Skeptics urged...
...American conference U. S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover warned against international loans. Money should be lent abroad, said he, only if it will be used for production of goods, never if for the balancing of budgets or the maintenance of armies...