Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close connection with the Government has been maintained since the day of its birth; for, on that day, it lent the State ?1,200,000 in perpetuity. For 70 years (1884 to 1914) it was practically the sole bank which had the right to issue notes; but, since the outbreak of the War, the Treasury has issued notes far in excess of the Bank of England's issue. The Committee of Treasury, formed of an indefinite number of the older members of the directorate of 24, regulated the daily business between the Bank and the Treasury, for which...
Nine grave Justices lent their ears to the argument for and against the school law of the State of Oregon. Oregon has a law requiring all children between the ages of 8 and 16 to attend the public schools. This, of course, is equivalent to the suppression of all private and parochial schools and military academies devoted to primary education. Against the law are aligned the two plaintiffs, 1) the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary and 2) the Hill Military Academy, backed by the North Pacific Union of Seventh Day Adventists, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary...
...Gillette and LeRoy Duffield, in which the latter is forced to take his voice cruelly beyond its range. There is dancing by almost everybody, but more particularly by the diminutive Harrington sisters, the Trado twins (male), the Lockfords (m. and f.), Bessie Hay, and Eleanor Willems. Miss Willems also lent her good looks to several of the skits, in one of which she was as seductive as the censor would allow...
...corridors of the House buzzed humorously with the news that ex-Premier MacDonald had de-decided to return his Daimler automobile to its donor, together with nearly ?30,000 worth of biscuit shares "lent" to him for its upkeep. It was this car which caused such a furore in the country last fall (TIME, Sept...
...beneficently inclined toward the Church the Cardinal's attack on the Fascisti seemed unfortunate. It, however, showed that there is at least one Prince of the Church who is unalterably opposed to the temporal sway of the Italian Government in the former Papal States. Great importance is lent to the attack by the sole fact that that particular Prince is one of the greatest powers in the Roman Catholic hierarchy...