Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd waited while the two lunched and then responded to their emergence by some polite applause, without so much as a Regular Cheer for the Pandit. As rubbernecks goggled, Nehru visited Lamont and Houghton Libraries. In the Lamont reading room he asked, wide-eyed, "And can the students borrow these books?"--followed by some uneasy moments while University officialdom tried to recall the right answer...
Since the pair were junketing through Spain with two other Congressmen and Maine's G.O.P. Senator Owen Brewster, they were able to borrow pants without trouble. But the incident set up a great and indignant gobbling: Keogh had been carrying the group's expense money in his wallet. It disturbed the Spanish police terribly also, since some of the Americanos were scheduled to talk to Generalissimo Franco in Madrid...
...should President Carlos Prío Socarrás have to borrow $100 million in the U.S. when there was plenty of money in Cuba? It was a question his enemies were bound to ask as soon as they heard about his proposed First Boston Corp. 3⅞% loan for public works (TIME...
...Moore's inauguration, Bunnell sounded an old alarm. The impoverished Territorial Legislature had given its university next to nothing for two years, and the regents have had to borrow $225,000 so far to pay off fuel bills and salaries. To Terris Moore, Charles Bunnell made a pledge: "We will not permit the university to close, if we have to go to the people who believe in Alaska and borrow our needs in ten and twenty dollar bills...
Critics and collectors disagree with her. Isabel Bishop's paintings hang in more than a dozen of the country's top museums; when a Manhattan gallery last week staged her first show of oils in ten years, it had to borrow almost half of the show from previous buyers. A painstaking worker, Bishop finishes only four or five paintings a year...