Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trinidad, British island off the northeast coast of South America, is a hot mixture of bloods, French, Spanish, Negro, Carib, Hindu, Chinese. Once a year, on the two days before Lent, Trinidad goes crazy with a carnival of rum-drinking, parades, musicmaking, mummery-blacks painted or masked as whites, whites as blacks. During carnival, Trinidad characters bearing such names as The Lion, Atilla the Hun, The Caresser, The Growler live high and merrily. They are the Calypsonians of the island, who compose, play and sing the Trinidad music known as Calypso.* Their songs, whose jerky rhythms and insinuating tunes suggest...
Since then the Export-Import Bank. $20,000,000 of whose $21,000,000 capital stock is held by RFC, has lent on three bases: to U. S. exporters of agricultural products, to U. S. exporters whose capital has been pinched by foreign exchange restrictions (i. e., blocked marks in Germany), and, most important, to U. S. exporters who wish to sell capital goods to foreigners who lack cash. Sample deal took place year ago when China bought 20 locomotives and equipment with credits of $1,500,000, half supplied by the Export-Import Bank, half by American Locomotive Sales...
...reported it had lent $78,054,393.18 to industries and $9,964.571.51 to banks from February 20 to July 6, was now preparing to make 2,492 more loans totaling...
Thomas L. Thurlow, lent for the flight by the U. S. Army; Flight Engineer Edward Lund, and Radio Engineer Richard Stoddart. Flier Hughes was guided by the most reassuring set of flying gadgets ever packed into a private airplane. Kept on his course by a homing radio compass, another taking bearings from ships at sea, and a new periscopic drift indicator perfected by Lieutenant Thurlow, Flier Hughes let a gyro-pilot do most of the flying, chatted every half hour or so over a powerful radio transmitter to a base at the New York World's Fair that...
...temporary emasculation, ruled the judges, and might be undone by rejoining the ends of the spermatic ducts. So Farmer Peter had himself castrated. Last week at Debrecen, the judges, mindful of the marvels of modern reconstructive surgery, still feared that Peasant Peter might somehow become fertile, trick anyone who lent him money on his entailed acres. They postponed permission to mortgage...