Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming' out of New England wood shops, but they are reproductions without the oldtime dash and color. In 20 years Collector Haffenreffer has bought scores of the ancient figures for his private museum. He refuses to put a price on his collection, but the 22 figures he has lent M.I.T. are valued at $25,000, and the price will go up as more & more of the old chieftains disappear from the U.S. scene...
From its beginning, Radio Radcliffe had unofficial connection with the Harvard Network. Harvard members lent records, exchanged programs, gave advice and reprimands, and repaired the broadcasting equipment...
Shakespeare lent his weight to the side of the dressers in Polonius' famous speech in Hamlet...
...enemy-or more so. Asked the difference between Communism and Fascism, she would say things like: "Though Mr. Stalin is a dictator, his efforts have been to help the people prepare themselves for greater power." In the late '30s she became a godmother to the American Youth Congress, lent it her name and gave it money. Then, hearing that it was Communist-inspired, she called some of its leaders to her White House sitting room, and told them "If any of them were Communists I would quite understand, for I felt they had grown up at a time...
Died. John Thomas Moore, 65, who, on a windy day in December 1903, lent a hand putting a flying machine on a runway, was the last surviving witness to the Wright brothers' historic first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk; of a self-inflicted shotgun wound; on Colington Island...