Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prizewinners have had to survive more exhausting tests. In other years, preliminary competitions reduced the candidates to eight finalists at the most who were then assembled in Manhattan for a final problem. This year, however, instead of being allowed to finish that problem at home where instructors sometimes lent a helping hand, four finalists were put through a test which suggested the ancient Pa-ku-wen of Imperial China.* In the exhibition hall of the Beaux-Arts Building carpenters built four little cubicles of composition board. Each was furnished with a drawing board, reading light, stool, ash trays, sets...
...series of swift developments lent credence to the belief the abductors intended to run the gauntlet of 30 Department of Justice agents and scores of state and city police to claim $200,000 ransom...
Among the Harvard faculty members who have lent their support to the project are Bruce C. Hopper, assistant professor of Government, Max A. Shepard, instructor in Government, William P. Maddox, instructor in Government, Edward S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of Psychology, Payson S. Wild, instructor in Government, William J. Bender '27, assistant dean, and Sarell E. Gleason, Jr. '27, instructor in History...
...portraits at the Knoedler Galleries. By Giovanni Bellini, it is the property of Lord Duveen of Millbank. There were plenty of other masterpieces to remind the public of the treasury of Old Masters still in private hands in Manhattan. Among them: Castagno's Portrait of a Young Man, lent by J. P. Morgan; another young man, by Botticelli, lent by Clarence Hungerford Mackay; Fouquet's John, Bastard of Orleans, lent by William Goldman...
...Christmas Day 1872, childless Johns Hopkins contemplated the end of his life and the division of his wealth. He had already written his will giving $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins Hospital and $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. During the following Lent he addressed an imperious letter to twelve leading Baltimore men. In that letter he revealed the tender core of his heart. Wrote he: "The indigent sick of this city and its environs, without regard to sex, age, or color, who may require surgical or medical treatment, and who can be received into...