Word: pawning
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Herr von Rechenberg, former Governor of the East African Colonies, suggested to Chancellor Stresemann that he pawn the Crown Jewels of the Imperial Family and those of the Princes of German States. This would net the Reich, according to Herr von Rechenburg, 2,000,000,000 gold marks, or more gold than is in the national treasury...
...close as possible to the heat and, chanting a hymn to the Sun, our land and our people may be saved from shriveling up like fried bacon. Certainly drastic steps must be taken immediately; and as long as the weather-man has proved himself a mere pawn of the gods, the New Englanders must once more grasp their fate in their own hands...
...since the war the artificial atmosphere of the College, and they are seeking to break down the fulsome barriers that they feel are artificial, and to let out their pent-up enthusiasm where the "bel-monde" will stop and listen. And it is just here that the undesirable intellectual pawn-brokers that live about Cambridge become important. They are extremely good listeners as well as advisers...
...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...