Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, lent substance to these rumors when he declared, in a speech, that the Union of Soviet Republics (Russia) was a standing challenge to the "civilization, constitution and parliamentary government of this country...
...CRIMSON board and tonight's gathering in the Sanetum. The intervening fifty-two years have been filled with journalistic alarums and excursions for generations of editors. Financial, catastrophes, tiffs with athletic teams, brushes with the authorities, and open warfare with impious editors of the Lampoon have all lent color to the CRIMSON'S lengthening past...
Early rumors were lent much force when a group of British Laborites in Bulgaria denounced the Tsankoff Government for its tyranny; but it subsequently appeared that they had never been in a position to judge accurately the situation. The strong-armed revolt which opened the eyes of the world two weeks ago (TIME, Apr. 27) had of necessity been put down by strong-armed methods...
Significance. Trouble on the seas and the world in flux; General Washington, in his yellow coach blazoned with cupids, lumbering, for the last time, from the Capitol; a Corsican swelling in Europe like a wen-such a period inevitably lent a lustre to extravagance and was a nursery of fantastic spirits. It is with this period that Author Minnigerode is primarily concerned. His essays are like the intricate oil-paintings of the time: a little figure in the foreground, and behind, in chiaroscuro, ships, crowds, cannon, marching men. In the interests of his characters, he has pried with a candle...
Last week, it was announced that the Air Service, U. S. Navy Department, would assist Explorer Donald B. MacMillan in his ninth expedition to the Arctic, upon which he intends to embark next June. Two Navy planes, of the Loening Amphibian type, would be lent, complete with volunteer pilot-mechanicians, sheltered cabins, ski-gear for landing on ice and snow...