Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject for clearance. His choice was "Lung Block," so called because of its high tuberculosis mortality rate. On it lived 650 families. In its backyards were seven jakes. On this fester Mr. French proposed to build a low-cost housing project. Mr. Jones agreed to do business, and RFC lent 85% of the required...
...dilapidated mortgaged farm lent them by an uncle go unemployed John Sims (Tom Keene) and his wife Mary (Karen Morley). Living on sardines and hacking forlornly at the soil with a spade, they are happy to take in a passerby and his family who have been dispossessed. John puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit...
...wearing his familiar green eyeshade, exhorted his hearers to take advantage of their opportunities. "No one will stand by with a red." Other bits of advice: "Don't be afraid of learning things that are just so." "Take reasonable care of your health." "Don't succumb to the preva- lent disposition to avoid taking part in a public discussion in a lecture-room...
...Child. In 1925 Yale University got four chimpanzees for animal psychology research, encouraged them to breed. Now Yale has 40 apes. Last week Professor Milton C. Forster described a competition between young chimpanzees and two children lent by faculty members. Both apes and moppets were silently trained to release a telegraph key when stimulated in turn by a sight, a sound, a touch. The apes' reaction times were as fast as the children's. Even when the subjects were trained to a "choice response" (two keys, two stimuli) the animals held their own with the humans...
Homer Van Meter, 29, got his start robbing trains in his 'teens. He met Dillinger in Indiana State Reformatory in 1925. Van Meter became Dillinger's body guard, slugged doctors into treating his chief, robbed police arsenals with him, lent a hand in bank robberies...