Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what belongs to you." A fair man who sometimes seemed hard, he had captained the first Texas A. & M. football team to beat the University of Texas (12-0. in 1902), and he sternly threw out tenants who had no good reason for defaulting on their rent. But he lent money freely when times were hard, would let a family fall behind on the rent if there were good reasons for it. Quietly he made no-interest loans to his tenants to help put their children through high school. By 1951 he was a millionaire...
...have been taken as a commentary on the stock market, which could stand only so much experimentation before it toppled over dead on Black Thursday. In an editorial entitled "Taking Stock," the CRIMSON noted that the "activities of the New York stock market in the past week have doubtless lent force to the opinions of the more austere European critics who have so often blamed this country for the lack of the continental finesse in the pursuit of this world's goods...
Bearcats and trips to Europe. She studied Sanskrit at the University of Chicago, and grew interested in Buddhism after her family doctor lent her a book on the subject. By the time she was in her early 205 she had decided that "Christianity fell far snort of what I expected from religion...
Price Fight. When the Government built the Nicaro plant in 1942, it badly needed ore to feed it. Freeport Sulphur Co. owned a rich ore body just four to eight miles away, and the Government lent $1,100,000 to Freeport to develop the ore. The Government promised to buy at least one-third of Nicaro's ore needs from Freeport through 1968, now gets all of Nicaro's ore from Freeport, pays a royalty of $1.73 per ton, and also pays the cost of extracting the ore. The Bureau of Mines contends that the Government, which operates...
...plane to New York, and four hours later he was standing before La Grande Jatte in the adjacent Whitney Museum. With an audible sigh of relief, he announced: "It's in excellent condition. No damage at all." It was the first time the Chicago Institute had lent the Seurat masterpiece, and it will be the last: it was given to the museum with the provision that it would be lent only once...