Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chronic religious conflagrations, western New York was then known as the "burnt over" district. Brigham lent ear to all itinerant moralizers, faith to none. Said he: "I saw them get religion all around me. Men were rolling and bawling and thumping." At 23, "to prevent being any more pestered," he became a Methodist...
...Then you will be ready,' he said. I followed his advice. Two years later, in June, a brother lent me five dollars with which to the entrance-examination fee. Those words, 'Be ready' kept haunting me, although I still had no hopes of going to college. My school work hardly merited a scholarship, but a kind fate was on my side and a few days before college opened, I was granted my first year tuition fee in the form of a scholarship...
...time has come for a show-down. H. G. Wells has lent his name to the cause, while Clarence Darrow has come forth as counsel. The press is filled with the story and the whole country is agog. To add fuel to the fire, Bryan will pour forth his oily words...
There is now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum a collection of drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, lent by Scofield Thayer '13. A number of modern prints, most of which were lent by Frederick Keppel & Company, are also part of the exhibit. The others belong to Professor Sachs, to the Museum Collection, to Julien S. Levy '27, and to Alfred Barr...
...winter, Dr. Edward Asahel Birge besought his Board of Regents to relieve him of the presidency of the University of Wisconsin, where he has been in service for the past half century. The Regents pondered, invited Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard University Law School. Dean Pound accepted, then lent ear to Harvard entreaties and changed his mind (TIME...