Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pawn for side-stepping work is something to which no one consciously stoops. The fact that these are exceptional times calls upon us to perform exceptional tasks. A man's accomplishments today should be limited only by the time at his disposal. Granted that men are doing more now than ever before, the fact still remains that a considerable part of each man's day is not utilized. The war demands economies of all kinds and that of time is not the least among them. Very few of us have reached a point where we no longer are able...
...those who remain behind are striving to do their best, so as to take the place of the men who have gone before, when Mars has given them up as a pawn, in the great game. The men at home are dropping the philosophical volume, the poets' lore, for the slide rule and the law of the chemist, in answer to the call of stern necessity. The arts are neglected while the sciences come into their own. And for the moment perhaps, this is best while Mars' cloud lowers on the horizon...
...Harvard-Yale contest of any kind scorns introduction. Even when Yale worsts the University at chess in the seclusion of a New York hotel, the defeat is mourned by many who do not know a pawn from a rook. No one need be urged to attend the hockey game tonight; but a reminder that the contest is not yet won, and that whole-heared support from the University is essential, is not amiss...
...most recent instance of theft is the disappearance of a number of overcoats that have been found in pawn shops. The guilty persons have not yet been apprehended, but it is such cases that are never lost sight of by Yard police until the blame is fin ally and irrevocably fixed. Another case against which there is a general warning is that of a negro who is peddling cigars about the rooms. The cigars, it turns out, are consistently smuggled. The peddler of the articles will be taken into custody as soon as his whereabouts is reported...
...number of men, leaving their overcoats in the halls of more or less public buildings and even in dormitories about the University, have returned to find them gone. The nature of these mysterious disappearances has lately come to light with the discovery of some of the overcoats in pawn shops about Boston. Aside from the inconvenience of stalking the streets of Boston for one's overcoat in weather like that of the early part of the week, one must redeem it, when found, from one's own pocket. So, as the thief or thieves are still at large and presumably...