Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection is of invaluable assistance. Lastly, the supposition has grown up that each year Harvard must have a pageant of notables decoratively arrayed on the platform for this important occasion. The choice of Alfred E. Smith last year not only gave Harvard a chance to show its originality, but lent a real color to the festivities. The fact that the accomplishments which merited a degree occurred several years before when he was Governor of New York prior to his retirement, made no difference. It really is too bad that Roosevelt has received a degree for Roosevelt and Hoover...
...took seven years to finish because Mr. Knatchbull caused repeated repaintings by remarrying, begetting more and more children. American-born Benjamin West (1738-1820) who lived in London and was one of his generation's most famed painters and teachers, was represented by Death on a Pale Horse, lent by the Pennsylvania Museum...
...story does not end here. When the Hungarian loan fell due it seemed inevitable that Hungary would default. Thereupon it was conveniently arranged that Hungary negotiate a long from The French government lent the at Hungarian negotiate a loan from the French government just M. Schneider's Banque de 1'Union instead of, as one night have expected, through the Banque de France...
...international touch lent by the presence of the cadets and officers of the cruiser "Karlsruhe" promises to make the annual Military and Naval Science Ball tonight at the Hotel Continental a colorful and distinguished event. Jackie Marshard and his orchestra will supply the music in the modernistic ballroom. The proceeds of the affair to which all University members are invited, will go to Phillips Brooks House...
When Charles II was King of England, the goldsmiths of London were his bankers. To him they lent well but not wisely and were ruined when he decided not to pay his debts. So when William III needed money in 1694 the Bank of England was created, the bank lending him ?1,200,000 in return for the right to issue banknotes and conduct a general banking business. The South Sea Bubble nearly ruined them in 1720. The early success of the Young Pretender (Charles Edward Stuart, grandson of James II) started a run in 1745. Napoleon's wars...