Word: lente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...close connection with the Government has been maintained since the day of its birth; for, on that day, it lent the State ?1,200,000 in perpetuity. For 70 years (1884 to 1914) it was practically the sole bank which had the right to issue notes; but, since the outbreak of the War, the Treasury has issued notes far in excess of the Bank of England's issue. The Committee of Treasury, formed of an indefinite number of the older members of the directorate of 24, regulated the daily business between the Bank and the Treasury, for which...
...Lent began with the birth of a new Holy Apostolic Catholic Church−in Mexico. Lent came to a close with the apparent demise of a Holy Apostolic Catholic Church−in Mexico...
...there have been days when tobacconalia really lent a fragrance to letters. Wrote Charles Lamb...
Nine grave Justices lent their ears to the argument for and against the school law of the State of Oregon. Oregon has a law requiring all children between the ages of 8 and 16 to attend the public schools. This, of course, is equivalent to the suppression of all private and parochial schools and military academies devoted to primary education. Against the law are aligned the two plaintiffs, 1) the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary and 2) the Hill Military Academy, backed by the North Pacific Union of Seventh Day Adventists, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary...
...Gillette and LeRoy Duffield, in which the latter is forced to take his voice cruelly beyond its range. There is dancing by almost everybody, but more particularly by the diminutive Harrington sisters, the Trado twins (male), the Lockfords (m. and f.), Bessie Hay, and Eleanor Willems. Miss Willems also lent her good looks to several of the skits, in one of which she was as seductive as the censor would allow...