Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local farmers lent a hand as well. The "College Corn" campaign to which each family was asked to contribute a peck of wheat per year supported a dozen scholarship's and paid the salaries of the entire faculty during this period...
...Troy, N.Y., members of Russell Sage College's Class of '49 made amends to the world's spryest primitive painter, Grandma Moses, 93. Grandma had got an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the girls' school in 1949. Her cap and gown were lent to her for the occasion, and recently Grandma complained in TIME (Dec. 28): "They didn't let me keep the cap." After reading TIME'S story, the Sage girls got busy and arranged for Grandma to come to their fifth reunion, where she was pictured admiring her appearance topped...
Much of Britain's film-producing industry would have blacked out long ago but for the help of the government's National Film Finance Corp. It backed 60% of the films made in the last five years, and lent the industry $28 million out of a special revolving loan fund. Fully half of this total went to British Lion Films (makers of such recent critical successes as Breaking Through the Sound Barrier and Captain's Paradise), founded by Sir Alexander Korda. The loan first fell due in 1951, but was extended so that British Lion would...
From exultant Manila newspapers, the wire services picked up the headline: TARUC SURRENDERS TO PRESIDENT MAGSAYSAY, but at the Philippine army's Camp Murphy the situation looked somewhat different. Taruc was installed in quarters usually reserved for VIPs. A Cabinet officer lent him a flowered shirt, photographers had a field day, soldiers brought in fans to keep him cool. Watching the lean Communist leaning easily on a windowsill, first-naming an Under Secretary, and running his delicate hands through the black curls of his 18-year-old son Romeo, an officer snapped: "You would think he was the head...
John Davison's Four Songs to Poems by George Herbert might have made a better impression had they been transposed. Although Jean Lunn '55 had sung Father Woollen's songs well, the Davison selections lay mostly in her weak upper-middle range; breathy tone lent little conviction to his spare melodic lines...