Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Storrow Drive, made a U-turn, and found a parking space near the stadium gate. The Harvard band played them to their seats. Sunlight poured down, warming them. The nippy air filled their lungs with clean coolness. Conversation buzzed around them; martial music stirred them; they lent their voices to cheers surging like surf from the sea of happy faces. Awed by it all, they sought each other's eyes...
...Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Hungarian-born Nobel Prize winner, will also be present at the rally. Szent-Gyorgi relayed an appeal on Sunday to American university students from his former colleagues at the University of Szeged, who asked for aid for Hungarian students. The Student Council unanimously lent support to the Hungarian students on Monday night in response to Szent-Gyorgi's plea...
Writing and filing have been catch-as-catch-can; the Western Union press representative, Harold Griffin, has lent his shoulders as a desk at an airport, has stood holding a typewriter while a reporter banged away...
...Cinemactor Ernest (Marty) Borgnine went on record to say that sudden success in the movies is not necessarily followed by sudden riches in real life. On Borgnine's last movie, the holders of his contract (Hecht-Lancaster) allegedly exercised their contractual right to pre-empt his services, then lent him out to do the same movie he was negotiating for. His contract-holders got "at least $75,000." Borgnine got $15,000. The movie: The Best Things in Life Are Free...
Last week the U.S. Export-Import Bank lent Japan $60 million to be used for importing more raw cotton from the U.S. The loan was one part of a broad program designed to boost both overseas and domestic consumption while holding down production. The goal for 1956-57 is a 20%-25% increase over total cotton sales in 1955-56 by doubling exports to 4,500,000 bales while keeping domestic consumption at last year's 9,200,000-bale level or even increasing it. With flexible price supports between 75% and 90% of parity, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft...