Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marcel Duchamp painted three Nudes Descending a Staircase. Two are alike save for a slight variation in tonality. Walter Conrad Arensberg owns all three, lent one to the Cleveland show in July, kept the other two at his home in Hollywood where he entertained Painter Duchamp in August...
...being a mean, unsociable skinflint. The Annenberg winter home in Miami Beach is gay, but when Mr. Annenberg goes to "Ranch A" (for Annenberg) in Wyoming he prefers to rest in comparative solitude. Sometimes when guests appear he goes away, leaves them in possession. Last June Republican Mr. Annenberg lent his ranch in absentia to South Dakota's Democratic Governor Tom Berry who gratefully used it to see that visiting New Dealer Rexford Guy Tugwell had a good time...
...celebrate the 300th Anniversary of Harvard University, potent graduates lent to Robinson Hall last week the most important collection of antiques New Englanders have seen for a generation. Also last week the Harvard Forest joined the festivities with an exhibition that a group of trained craftsmen has been preparing for the past five years. Sixteen illuminated models went on view near the famed glass flowers in the University Museum. Portrayed in miniature and exact detail were the history and proper care of a New England forest...
Uniting The Bronx, Manhattan and Queens by means of an enormous steel and concrete Y, the Triborough Bridge represents the biggest single thing New York City has so far got out of the New Deal. The Federal Government lent $35,000,000, gave $9,200,000 towards its construction. Largely because of this heavy stake, President Roosevelt went to New York City last week to dedicate the new bridge. Chief engineer of the Triborough was Othmar Hermann Ammann, who swung the Port of New York Authority's huge George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River. When his turn came...
...River National Bank, the doctor was obliged to gamble for new business, began financing money-hungry cinema companies. His sure-fire test of the box-office value of a new film was to show it privately to a group of schoolgirls aged 15 to 20. What they liked he lent money on. Berated once by a bank examiner for having risked $500,000 on Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, he replied: "I think it a better investment than a Liberty Bond." The Kid paid back its loan in five months, and Liberty Bonds dropped to 80. In 1931 Bank...