Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then, to get some actual money into the deal, three safe deposit companies controlled by Bank of U. S. borrowed $8,000,000 from the bank, bought Premier's shares from Bolivar. Bolivar then paid its debt to Bankus ($4,800,000) with part of the money received, lent Bankus the remaining $3,200,000. Bankus was now able to pay its debt to the bank with money the bank had gratuitously put in the game. In other words, no money ever really changed hands; the bank was still $8,000,000 out of pocket...
...first collection, lent by A. A. Hutchinson, of New York City, is of considerable value from an artistic viewpoint, since it includes work from the hands of the greatest masters of the period. An ink-well by Paul de la Mererie, executed in 1731, is considered the main display in the case. Mererie was forced to leave France after the proclamation of Louis XIV that all silver plates should be melted for the state treasury, and with a considerable number of his fellow-craftsmen, came to England, where he was soon after named Royal Goldsmith. A large "lion" tankard, bearing...
Five rare and significant tapestries have been lent to the Fogg Art Museum, and are now on exhibition in the main room of the building. It is understood that the pieces will be on view throughout the coming summer, and during the first few weeks of the fall term...
...arrived the first batch of Chinese government students in the U. S., among them young Tang Shao-yi. In 1912 Tang became First Premier of the Chinese Republic. Last week venerable Tang arrived in Canton, lent by his presence an air of respectability to the successful revolution there (TIME, May 11). Canton vernacular papers told their readers: "Tang Shao-yi is a personal friend of Hoover Herbert,* President of the United States of America. . . . Their friendship began 30 years ago when Hoover Herbert was a young engineer in China...
...advertisements of Manhattan's Sheffield Farms, a division of National Dairy Products Corp., Thomas Alva Edison lent his photograph and wrote: "The Almighty knew His business when He apportioned milk.* He is the best chemist we have...