Word: lente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Point was lent by last week's stock-taking to a remark by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, March 29, THE LEAGUE) that "It may take years" for the U. S. to thrash out the whole matter of World Court reservations by diplomatic notes among the interested powers...
...Straightway the U. S. Treasury Department, through Assistant Secretary Garrard Winston, gave back the lie with delicate irony to Chancellor Churchill, pointed out that almost $2,000,000,000 of the "munitions and foodstuffs" alluded to were bought by Britain as purchasing agent for her Continental Allies with sums lent them by the U. S. (Thus Britain was declared to have purchased on her own account about half the "Common Cause" munitions and supplies stated by Mr. Churchill.) Pat came the British Exchequer's answer. The sums expended by Britain as agent for her Continental Allies were really more...
President Doumergue and French officials, numberless, bustled to welcome Mulai Yusef, Sultan of Morocco, Amir-el-Mumenin (Prince of True Believers). Soon that portly sovereign was installed in the magnificent residence of Baroness Roger, lent for his accommodation...
...Franco-Spanish frontier, eagerly questioned travelers from Spain declared: "Weyler is after Primo's scalp again." They meant, of course, General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. He had, it was reported, lent the weight of his notorious influence to a band of his henchmen, who counted on marching from Barcelona to Madrid and Power-even as Dictator Primo made exactly that same "march à la Mussolini" (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). The active leaders of the revolt were 18 generals and a round dozen of Liberal and Communist politicians. General Aguilera, onetime Minister...
...first crew looked better Saturday, than it has for a long time. Holding the Navy crew to a three-and-a-half length margin was a lent performed by no other crew this season, and at the same time Captain Winthrop's eight took ample revenge on M.I.T. for its defeat the week before. The Cornell crew, the surprise of Saturday's regatta, did a good job and forced the Crimson boat to the finish. Harvard as usual rowed a long slow stroke, and locked like a four-mile crew, an encouraging sign with only the Yale race ahead...