Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loan Library, consisting of books necessary in the Law School, from which volumes are lent to men working their way through the School, has been increased this year by a large number of donations from graduating students...
Letters to the Harvard Fund Council, which have, in many cases, accompanied contributions, indicate a gratifying approval of the plan of the fund. A case in which distance has lent, perhaps something besides enchantment, is that of a distinguished Siamese contributor, whose letter is also quoted on another page. If the Fund's appeal can effectively reach a man so far removed from the life and flavor of Cambridge, it will not be lost on those who are geographically closer...
...farm relief problem centres on two bills. The Tincher bill (supported by the Administration) carries $100,000,000 to be lent as a revolving fund to farmers' cooperatives to aid them in solving their crop surplus problems. The Haugen bill (opposed by the Administration, demanded by many farm interests), carries a fund of $375,000,000, which contemplates Government purchase of farm surpluses in emergency to maintain domestic prices, and will impose (after two years) a tax on farm products to provide for losses in the use of the fund...
...from Robert Herrick and Sol B. Joel, from Charles Beecher Warren and John J. McCarty. The list has almost no end, composed as it is of men in all walks of life?ambassadors, financiers, politicians, scientists, admirals, artists. And the names of most of these men are not merely lent as they might be to a worthy charity; they are men in whose lives he has played a part: Hadley at whose Alma Mater he got his education, Hearst whose father gave him his first job, Joel whose uncle (Barney Barnato) took him to South Africa, Sir Lionel Phillips...
...average citizen a quarter century ago, his politics, his fashions in clothes, his advertisements, his economic problems, his popular songs, his heroes and his leaders, his jokes, his prophecies pathetic and otherwise, his medicine and his science, his art, his music and his literature. A unique savor is lent to the whole by more than 200 illustrations: cartoons of issues that were, plates of fashions that were, photographs of yesterday's political leaders as they were, and of today's political leaders as they then were, pictures of the stage as it was, scores of popular songs now forgotten?...