Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ADLAI STEVENSON is highly regarded by Soviet leadership as one who really wants to understand Russia. "Mr. Stevenson lacked a few million votes of becoming President. Perhaps if we had been approached, we could have lent them to him" (laughter). Murmured Adlai: "I am flattered at the suggestion, but it is a little late...
Next came news from Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. that Colonel Franklin R. Sibert, commander of the 2nd Training Regiment and an Episcopalian, had lent his personal weight to a St. Maurice campaign. A large painting of the saint was hung at headquarters, drawings of St. Maurice were displayed throughout the post, the officers' club was named St. Maurice Club, the gym was named after him, and wooden scrolls appeared on the barracks walls bearing the inscription: "We live, fight and die for God, country and St. Maurice...
Harvard's withdrawal from NSA "lent a sense of urgency to the report," according to Henry, but was not solely responsible for the changes, He doubted that the withdrawal had produced any effect on the member schools themselves...
...rate machinery and fertilizer, plus state money to buy livestock and state land if needed. As a result, 499 collectives were formed in 1958-but in the same year 470 were dissolved. Typical example: five farmers near Warsaw announced that they intended to form a cooperative farm. The government lent them funds to buy pigs and offered land to raise them on. Starting with eight brood sows in February, the farmers sold the fattened litters in October, made a handsome profit, paid back the government loan, gave back the land, dissolved the collective and went back to private farming. Polish...
Organized by Michel J. Strauss '59 and Michael C. D. Macdonald '60, the show will be comprised of approximately 120 objects lent by 35 Harvard and Radcliffe students...