Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among European diplomats one fact is axiomatic: in economic matters there is no satisfactory substitute for trade with the U. S. If Italy goes to war the raw materials, foodstuffs, petroleum which she now gets from the U. S. will be cut off instanter. This was the one card which Franklin Roosevelt had to play against war but there were other cards that he might play for peace-perhaps a promise of better trade relations, perhaps a reciprocal trade agreement, possibly even recognition of the conquest of Ethiopia (the U. S. yet addresses Vittorio Emanuele as "King," not "King...
...post card addressed to Tihany at 85 Prescott Street, Cambridge arrived yesterday almost half a year after it was mailed in Chicago by a friend during the last Christmas rush...
Hanford also drew attention to the official college regulation that reads: "No student shall refuse to give his name to an officer of the University. A student shall deliver his Bursar's card to an officer of the University on request...
Taboo in the Thomas family of Baltimore were dancing, card playing, the theatre, discussion of politics and sex, quarreling and demonstrativeness. But the Thomases, descendants of Quaker Founder George Fox, were not such strict Quakers as Grandmother Whitall: when she came visiting, they hid the piano. Under great stress one of the family taboos might be broken: Dr. Thomas made an apoplectic exception to denounce Cleveland as too radical. When it came time to tell the children about the Facts of Life, Dr. Thomas said it was Mrs. Thomas' place to tell their four sons, and that their four...
...listed for the day's activity Dartmouth, champion in 1938 and heralded as one of the stronger nines in the race for the 1940 pennant, will clash with unbeaten Cornell at Ithaca. Yale will be host to Pennsylvania at New Haven. In the third contest on the day's card Harvard will play Princeton at Tigertown...