Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chain-drive International, a 1904 one-cylinder Cadillac, a rope-drive 1902 Holsman, a 1902 Lincoln truck-roadster, a 1907 Staver roadster with hard tires on its buggy wheels, a 1906 Model N Ford, a 1908 Maxwell driven to the Fair by its owner. The cars had been lent by the Fair pageant Wings of a Century. The race was run on Friday the 13th. Driving a 1904 Maxwell carrying No. 13, Barney Oldfield, whose real name (Berna Oldfield) has 13 letters, won by chugging seven times around a 1,300-ft. course at an average speed of 13 m.p.h...
...This session of the 73rd Congress . . . provided for the readjustment of the debt burden. It lent a hand to industry. . . . It strengthened. ... It provided. . . . It made further advances. ... It supplemented. ... It took definite steps. . . . It created. . . . Finally, and I believe most important, it recognized, simplified and made more fair and just our monetary system...
...among their followers and preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled. Occasionally some of these men, their wives or daughters were painted for a posterity which was quick to forget them. Last week in the Worcester Art Museum a collection of such portraits was put on show. Lent by many a learned institution or lately found in many a dusty New England attic, the pictures were a ghostly recollection of pomp and triviality in the late American...
With the clerk of the House last week the Democratic party filed its financial statement, reporting a treasury deficit of $557-757 as of May 31. Still uncancelled was $80,250 lent the Brown Derby by John J. Raskob in 1928. Still unpaid were some bills incurred during the 1932 campaign which put Franklin D. Roosevelt into the White House: $47,650 to Columbia Broadcasting System; $170,571 to National Broadcasting Company; $13,565 to Western Union; $14,122 to Postal Telegraph; $18,067 to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel for campaign headquarters...
...chapel cars in all U. S. railroading. Descendant of ST. ANTHONY which was in use 25 years ago, ST. PETER was converted from an ordinary sleeper at a cost of $50.000 by the Catholic Church Extension Society, ablest of Catholic home mission organizations. Eight years ago it was lent, later given to Bishop William Joseph Hafey of Raleigh, N. C. He in turn presented it to the "Mission Band'' headed by Father Murphy. Because only 9,000 of North Carolina's 3,000,000 population are Roman Catholics, Father Murphy takes his car into many a section...