Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program is not connected with college loan projects. The University last year lent over $100,000, and M.I.T. more than three times that much. John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, earlier this year said that such a loan organization would be an important step forward, although it could never replace scholarships, which are for students who cannot afford a loan...
...breed was transported to Afghanistan, but all along the wild, high borderland of northern India the great hounds became a royal canine family. They were smart enough to herd sheep, swift enough to run down deer, sturdy enough to tangle with leopards. Their broad, high-set hips lent unusual agility to their natural speed. They have been called "gaze hounds" because they spotted their prey by sight, not scent. British officers back from Asian duty told tales of untrained Afghan hounds serving as sentries at frontier forts...
...Prosperity makes friends," noted Publius. This observation holds true so long as there are quarters to be lent; but when these run out, so does the Roommate's affability...
...Mendès-France, playing shrewdly on France's century-old fear of German domination, had belabored the proposal in language and innuendo all but identical to that used by the Communist orators. Worse yet. four other former Premiers-Edgar Faure. Joseph Laniel, Antoine Pinay and Paul Reynaud-lent their names to a motion that demanded as the price of French participation that the other five nations must agree to put up capital for France's overseas territo ries, while giving France complete control over the spending of the money...
Enthusiastic Search. By 1944 the group was becoming familiar to French radio listeners, but the members still supported themselves and their wives by jobbing in local orchestras. In 1948 Delvincourt lent them a house in Paris (willed to him by a music-loving friend). "It was very little, very dirty, very uncomfortable," says Jacques Parrenin. "Our wives didn't want to live there." Actually, after some refurbishing, all members and their families have lived there contentedly for the past eight years, played from morning till night. They got a few concert dates, and in 1952 came the break: they...