Word: lente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just idling off when a fellow on a bike buzzed up. "I want you," he said. "Your place has copped it." He lent me the bike-decent bloke he was-and I burned up the main road toward home. Soon as I got near I could see it was close -crowds and the most awful bloody wreckage all over the lot, police lines streets away. ... I took a quick look. Our house was standing-well, more or less standing. But it was blitzed to bloody hell-the roof clean off, the windows and doors gone, the walls sagging...
...increase the power of nations whose currency is being borrowed from the Fund, every borrower loses one vote for every $400,000 it borrows; the nation whose currency is lent gets that vote instead. Thus if South Africa borrows $100 million from the Fund, 250 of South Africa's 1,250 votes pass to the U.S. British voting power will likewise be increased if pounds are borrowed from the Fund...
...communist king. Last week this chess set and over 30 others went on exhibition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Many of the pieces, some dating from the 9th Century, were exquisite miniature sculptures in ivory, silver, fine woods. Most of the Metropolitan's chess show was lent by Chess Collector Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, co-author of Chessmen...
Year IV. The Japs took over Indo-China. The British reopened the Burma Road. The U.S. embargoed iron & steel to Japan, lent the first $100,000,000 to China. From his Chungking capital Chiang Kai-shek voiced an old belief: that most of the world hated aggressors, wanted peace; that if China held on, powerful allies would come to her side. China held...
...hiatus might not have been so long if during that period Germany's Gerhard Domagk had not discovered sulfa drugs (TIME, Dec. 28, 1936), which began to save lives so dramatically that the experts dropped everything else to test them out. In 1933, Dr. Fleming himself lent a hand with M & B 693, also known as sulfapyridine. The sulfas almost seemed to be the dream drugs he had looked for. They stopped deadly streptococci, even cured pneumonia. But the more sulfa drugs were used, the clearer it became that they 1) sometimes delayed healing by irritating wound walls...