Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the majority report of the Senate Judiciary Committee, presented to the Senate the day after Jack Garner departed. That coincidence lent color to reports that the reason the President had been willing to excuse Oldster Garner from duty, was that the Vice President had grown more and more to side with those "free representatives" who want to kick over New Deal traces...
This was no startling suggestion; it had been endorsed, if not effected, by every Disarmament Conference since the Treaty of Versailles. And everyone knows that Europe's credit, especially France's, is already badly strained by Rearmament. But a certain freshness of point and purpose was lent to Premier Blum's remarks by echoes from the conference of the International Labor Office, meeting at Geneva. There, representing President Roosevelt and U. S. Labor, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady sounded off: "I predict that the world's working men and women will not forever...
Five expeditions were on hand in Peru this week to make the best of the late afternoon performance-one Peruvian, one Japanese, three U. S. Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc. lent an airliner to take a group of observers up 30,000 ft. into the crystal clarity of the substratosphere. At the other end of the eclipse path, the National Geographic Society-U. S. Navy Expedition set up camp on Canton Island in the Phoenix group, inhabited mainly by millions of rats (descended from shipwrecked ancestors). This party was equipped with a new material for measuring the polarization...
...Consolidated linked to Steam. Just as power companies exchange power over interconnecting lines, so Consolidated and Steam are interconnected for exchange of steam. Manhattan's tall towers need most steam on early winter mornings when electric loads are light. So to New York Steam Consolidated has long lent steam from the boilers in its generating stations. In summer New York Steam returns the compliment. Steam's all-time peak load was Feb. 9, 1934, when the mercury in Manhattan thermometers shriveled to 13° below zero...
...Three of his best paintings, now at the Metropolitan, show how permanently he thus set down what he saw of Paris life in the 1870s and '80s: Le Bal áBougival, just acquired by" the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (see cut); Au Moulin de la Colette, lent by John Hay Whitney, and Le Déjeuner des Canotiers, from the Phillips Memorial Gallery...