Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madariaga's recent ingenious attempt to prove that Columbus was an unconverted Jew is dismissed as "a significant pattern of hypotheses and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact." Professor Morison also smiles wanly at stories like Columbus and the egg.* Nor, says he, did Isabella pawn her jewels to outfit Columbus' ships. She only said she would if it was necessary; it wasn...
Long before the attack there had been political stupidities. In September, Thai land, air and sea officers were given a thorough and amiable tour of inspection of Singapore's defenses; Thailand was now a Jap pawn. Well before the attack Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had offered Chinese troops to help defend British territory; the British had turned down the offer. At this late hour something was finally being done about mobilizing Malaya's 2,200,000 Japanophobe Chinese as air wardens, propagandists, guerrillas...
...just under the surface, but it has not yet been mined. With all Sarawak's natural wealth, some of Raja Brooke's main sources of revenue are, according to the ultra-conservative Statesman's Year Book, "customs, the Government opium monopoly, gambling, arrack and pawn farms" (ie) the Government farms out licenses for gambling, the sale of distilled rum, pawning...
Said London Daily Mirror Columnist Cassandra: "The rank & file of the legal profession are solid in their hostility toward 18B. Lord Atkin's historic dissent becomes more apparent in its greatness. . . . We are putting plenty in pawn . . . and I for one don't like either the pawnshop or the pawnbroker...
...Minister of Labor, horny-handed Ernest Bevin could -if he chose-walk into London's stuffy Athenaeum Club, tap the Archbishop of Canterbury on his bald pate and order him to Sussex to dig trenches. Having, as the London Times put it, placed "our ancient liberties ... in pawn for victory," Britons wondered what their Government intended to do about it. Last week they found...