Word: borrow
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Nowadays it is harder to borrow the Government's M-Day plans. But it is salutary to recall Nazi study of them in 1934 as a good instance of how easygoing democracies get licked by the dictators...
...this remarkable pair is too trivial for discussion all over China: if he flies to Chengtu for two days' rest, it is taken to mean that the Government is moving; if she flies to Hong Kong to have her teeth fixed, it is rumored that China will borrow ?25,000,000 from Britain...
...before the President upped his emergency Defense estimates by $1,000,000,000 plus (see p. 77), the expected deficit for fiscal 1941 stood at $3,703,000,000. This prospect in itself was nothing new. But, said Mr. Morgenthau, the U. S. Treasury as of last week could borrow only $1,973,000,000 more without cracking the $45,000,000,000 debt limit. In consequence the Secretary, Muley Doughton and Pat Harrison asked Congress to up the limit to $48,000,000,000, set aside the new taxes specifically to pay off the additional debt. Congress pliantly prepared...
...Samuel Goldwyn announced that for his next picture he planned to borrow David Niven from the British Army...
...absence of his regular sprinters Coach Mikkola was forced to borrow men from other events. He converted quarter-miler Ted Meredith into a sprinter. Although Meredith did creditably in the Dartmouth meet, finishing third behind Ritter, winner of the Heptagonal dash his time of 10.2 could not offer any competition for Owen and Rothschild, the Yale dash...