Word: lente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Greenough's constant devotion to Harvard and Harvard affairs should be a great source of reassurance to those who cling to the hope that Harvard is something more than an educational factory. He lent a sensitive humanity to his dealings with the University that went far beyond the line of duty. One sees him worrying with the problem of supporting English a for five months on a balance of 82.25; or trying, as dean, to make the Freshman's problem of adjustment a less tortuos one; or, as bouscmaster, asking his assistants to find out which...
strength-in-the-making. More than half the $500,000,000 recently added to the Export-Import Bank's kitty to help Latin America economically will be lent for the purchase of arms (see p. 65), for the equipment of most Latin-American armies and navies is obsolete...
...some thought which trouble him and sought expression. He would sit down heavily, remove his battered gray Homberg. . . He would then launch an impassioned tirade against Vollard or less gens de commerce." Contrast this with a newspaper account of the exhibition and opening. "Pots of yellow and white chrysanthemum lent a festive note, and the guests were served punch and hot bouillon with lrtiny sandwiches. . . Mrs. Wore her coronation gown of blue and silver brocade with bands of rhinestones, and was trying to discern which was the woman and which the hat in the painting entitled. "Woman With...
...pocket." To make up the difference between ?70,000,000 weekly outgo and estimated tax revenues of ?30,000,000 weekly, ?20,000,000 was coining in from subscription to war issues, ?10,000,000 from sale of gold and securities abroad and the rest from customers' deposits lent by joint stock banks to the Treasury. Orthodox Economist Sir Josiah Stamp grumbled "inflation is just around the corner." Less orthodox Economist John Maynard Keynes, now a Churchill braintruster, admitted new taxes were inevitable, but lightheartedly added: "We are only beginning to put forth our economic strength. ... I find people...
...thaws lent the brine...