Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hong Kong last week, experts on Red China read and reread this statement: "To speak of greatness in a man is not to say that he is always correct." What lent fascination to this seemingly innocuous sentence from Peking's New China SemiMonthly was the fact that the Chinese word it used for "greatness" is one the Reds usually reserve for Mao Tse-tung. With customary bafflegab. Peking was publicly admitting that Chairman Mao has been forced into a humiliating retreat by the stubbornness of "The Old Hundred Names"-Red China's faceless peasant masses...
...their spare time during the Civil War. In 1922 the job fell to a modern and most civic-minded Lowell, astute Banker Ralph of the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. By last week, when he finally decided to hand the reins over to Harvard itself, the fund had lent $1,435,969 to 10,500 Harvard students, including eight who became college presidents,* two Massachusetts governors,† 60 college professors...
...cosmetics and doing odd jobs. In London, broader-minded officials gave him a permit to study in the U.S., but Njoroge had to borrow passage money (he still hopes to pay back the ?60), arrived in the U.S. in the fall of 1951 with just 3?. A fellow passenger lent him taxi money and $1.50 for a Y.M.C.A. room; the Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students lent him $70 bus fare to get to California. After a succession of odd jobs and premed studies, he finally entered Stanford University School of Medicine, got his M.D. in 1957, interned...
Wonderful Time. Her brothers, John and Lionel, also honored the family onstage. But even John, whose liquid offstage escapades lent gaudy luster to a theatrical generation, recognized amber-eyed Ethel as queen. With her, both boys were always chastened-properly formal and respectful. "My God!" exclaimed a friend after attending a typical family dinner. "Don't you know each other...
...reason was Teacher Bach's skill at spotting hungry boys with talent, most of them Depression kids with a drive to make good. For them, Bach's first aim was finding a fine camera: "In those days, it was like buying a diamond." Often Bach lent a boy the down payment out of his own pocket, persuaded a camera store to give him credit, found him odd jobs to keep up the payments. With a precision instrument in his palms, a boy's confidence soared and soared. And Bach carried through by getting his boys jobs...