Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world another chance to misjudge the colleges. Red Grange by choosing to become a successful machine, working or the pleasure of the horde, has killed whatever esteem he could have had among university men. Oberlander's jersey is still in his locker: Grange's faded blue hangs in a pawn shop...
...Tchitcherin again talked to Stresemann for more than an hour; delivered a last exhortation. What he said may be judged from his public utterances: "England's effort toward creating a security compact is simply a part of her insidious anti-Soviet activity. . . . England sees in Germany a mere pawn to be used against Russia... Germany must not fall into the British trap...
...murder of a tong chief, a gunman may receive as much as $10,000; for a pawn or coolie, not more than $500. At the end of a war, the better shots are often rich men. Last week, obedient to the messages from Boston, they began business in a number of cities...
Nava. Signor Cesare Nava was merely a political pawn. Mussolini needed him at one time for his pro-Vatican policy but, as it is now clearly recognized that that policy has been advanced as far as possible, Nava became an anomaly in the Cabinet and was virtually removed to make room for a Fascist...
Surely the news did not get so distorted in the U. S. A. as all that. Zaghlul polled a clear majority, both at the primaries and in the returns to Parliament, where his party secured 126 out of 214 seats. The British (who granted the Constitution), through their pawn Ziwar, compelled the dissolution of Parliament. Ziwar and his party have never been elected to office and they remain unpopular with the Egyptians...