Word: secondhands
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...open letter, to students, Heidelberg University requests secondhand books, principally American literature, to rebuild its war-tern library of American classics...
...company's poles had rotted and fallen; much of its wire had corroded and snapped. Dr. Bryan hired a young lineman to put in new poles and wire, spotting the bad breaks in the system himself as he drove around the countryside on his calls. He bought a secondhand switchboard for $100, installed it in a room beside his office, and got his secretary to operate it. Since then he has installed up-to-date dial phones for his 330 subscribers in mountainous, sparsely settled Grainger County, can tie them in with the Bell system for long-distance calls...
James Van Fleet's countrymen and the Greek people could forgive him the secondhand poetry; he had served the cause of freedom at first hand...
...writing about China, Philosopher Lin Yutang settled down on the French Riviera last year to explore the mysteries of America. A glamorous, not to say exotic, figure when dishing out pearls of wisdom from the mysterious East, Philosopher Lin is a little like a peddler dealing out secondhand clothes when he begins thumbing through a Western library...
Oilmen and garage proprietors purred at the prospects of big sales ahead. Secondhand car dealers rubbed out their price notices and chalked up new figures ?50 to ?100 higher. Country innkeepers tidied up unused rooms in happy anticipation of new customers hitting the open roads once again. City stockbrokers rubbed their hands in satisfaction as rubber, oil and hotel shares climbed...