Word: furnishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under questioning, Administrator Hoffman admitted frankly that he could not furnish final breakdowns to show where all of the EGA money would go, but he emphasized that the totals had been revised "downward again & again." Few seemed inclined to dispute him. Ohio's Republican Senator Robert A. Taft, a man with a burning aversion to blank checks, conceded that the estimates looked "just about right...
...fact that Norway has a common boundary with Russia-a 122½-mile strip on the Arctic tip of the Scandinavian peninsula. It asserted that the proposed Atlantic pact was an attempt by the U.S. and Britain to dominate the world. It asked Norway whether she was going to furnish the West with "air force or naval bases...
...manage the convention as if it were a Peronista rally. Inspecting the high-domed Congreso a few days before the convention opened, imperious Evita acted as if she owned the place. She announced when she would speak, decided where she would sit. She had already proclaimed that she would furnish some of the convention props. Among them: a portrait of Argentina's Liberator José de San Martin, a crucifix, a vellum-bound copy of the Gospels, and most important, a chair of native pipiribi wood with President Perón's portrait, the Argentine shield...
Outside of Wilmington, the council found, Delaware has no fully equipped high school for Negroes. The average school is 24 years old. Fifty have no playground equipment, 48 have only one teacher, 22 have no electricity. There are no towels in 22 schools; in eight others the pupils furnish their own. Thirty schools lack soap; only 85 have provisions for serving hot lunches. Some schools have no hot water, others have no water...
McNiff explained a tentative plan for the location of books in the new library. Volumes of required and collateral reading, which furnish the bulk of Lamont books, will be found in a main reading room. A poetry collection, an assortment of books on the history of Harvard, and the contents of the Farnsworth room will be transferred to special places. An additional 250,000 volumes from Widener and Houghton will eventually go to two stacks below the ground level in the new building...