Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million gold livres. The duke also did well enough by himself to purchase a fine old château on the banks of the Loire 80 miles south of Paris. During its long history and frequent alterations, Château Sully-sur-Loire, as it came to be known, lent its sheltering roof to the entertainment of nine Kings of France, as well as to Voltaire, the Marquis de Lafayette, Cardinal Mazarin and Joan of Arc. In recent times 20,000 tourists a year have trooped through...
...tape of establishing a regular school could be untangled. Then the school could be reconverted into its component houses and sold. When Architect Victor Abrahamson showed them the plans for Oddstad's project, the local school board quickly gave him the nod. A San Francisco bank lent the money, and Oddstad's construction crews rushed the school to completion...
...discussing freedom of the press, Hu Shih knew whereof he spoke: he had lent his name to the critical fortnightly, Free China, which Wu conceded to be an exception to his accusation. Hu Shih's retort: Whoever heard of a police state that permitted "exceptional" freedom...
Hilton was not saying where he would get the cash to finance his latest coup. But the Manufacturers' Trust Co. promptly lent him $8,000,000 to make a down payment on the 753,000-share Statler-family block, and the word was that insurance firms might lend him another $66 million. The remainder will probably come from debentures and a small Hilton stock issue...
Then Alleghany turned around and made a new deal with the Texans to put its stock under joint ownership, along with their remaining 300,000 shares (for which Alleghany had lent them the money). Under the contract, Murchison and Richardson will get dividends and the profits from any sale of their 300,000 shares, though the voting rights will be exercised by Alleghany Corp. And the Texans will stand any losses on both their holdings and Alleghany's if they are sold at a loss...