Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activities of Mason Hammond '25, head tutor of Lowell House, have succeeded in procuring for the common rooms of the House an interesting collection of oriental objects d'art, which have been lent by residents and by the Fogg Art Museum for an indefinite period. In the large common room are among other exhibits, three Japanese prints dating from the first contact with modern Europe. They include a sketch on an English lady of uncertain age, a soldier, and the portrait of a Yankee skipper. In the Tutor's common room a sculptured head, collected during the first Harvard expedition...
Governments often come to the aid of their country's industries. Seldom do industries render direct financial aid to their governments. Last week four great electric corporations - Siemens-Schuckert, German General Electric, Bergmann Electrical Co. and Brown Boveri-lent $12,000,000 cash to the German State Railways, to electrify roads in the south of Germany (particularly the Augsburg-Stuttgart line) and incidentally reduce unemployment by providing work for 10,000 men for a year and a half...
...Manhattan, Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of Manhattan. Their selection depended largely on their nearness to the main broadcasting office in Manhattan. Besides them, 286 other Protestants have taken part?occasional Sundays, at morning devotional periods, at "hymn-sing" Thursday evenings, during Lent and at Thanksgiving. They represented all major Protestant denominations and all parts of the U. S. None was paid. Singers and musicians, however, were paid?$67,247.23. In the daily devotional programs they performed 736 hymns taken from 19 different hymnals. They reached from ten stations (Hymn-Sing) to 75 (Sunday...
...dozen collections and the Luxembourg Museum in Paris lent portraits of lovely ladies for the open show. Artists represented ranged from early Romantic Théodore Géricault. Courbet, Cabanel to ultramodern Marie Laurencin and Jean Lurçat Lovely ladies painted included the Duchess of Rutland Russian Dancer Ida Rubenstein (by Leon Bakst) and Maud Dale thingly disguised as Mme D. by Jean...
...bedeviling regular Republican Senators-electon their campaign expenditures; 2) recall legislation to modernize three battleships which was later passed a second time over their pacifist protests; 3) order investigation, into the disproportionate prices of flour, bread and sugar. The Insurgents' frank desire for an extra session of Congress lent realism to the threat of Democratic Leader Robinson to force one unless his $25,000,000 Federal food fund for Drought sufferers was accepted by the Administration. If Congress-rejected this proposal, Senator Robinson, confident of Insurgent assent, warned Republican leaders: "You can stick your appropriation bills...