Word: swapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swap...
Fortunately for Chase and Hutchins two students from the sunkist land wished to be allowed to transfer to the eastern boat and so get a chance to acquire Harvard accent and Yale sneers. Accordingly, a swap was arranged which was not so successful as a swap, since one of the California never appeared in eastern climes. He was a gridster of no mean ability and it is believed that he was picked up by a man named Crisler, who was looking for tie-layers at a small junction in New Jersey...
...been contributing (almost literally) a weekly article to the Nation. First news that Editor Kirchwey had of his shift was when the New Republic sent in copy for an exchange advertisement in the Nation announcing the acquisition of Mr. Broun. However, Editor Kirchwey (who agreed to the advertising swap) had long been aware that the Newspaper Guild's unpressed president had not been happy in her columns. Last April, after two Nation writers opposed the Roosevelt court reorganization plan, Mr. Broun declared in its pages: "I'm getting a little sick of the Nation's policy...
...when smoothing the way for the Union Pacific Railroad, the U. S. Government asked the friendly Shoshone Indian Tribes in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming to swap their 44,672,000 miscellaneous acres for the choice, compact, well-watered 3,054,182 acres of what is now the Wind River Reservation southeast of Yellowstone National Park. The Indians agreed, moved and thereafter aided U. S. soldiers in campaigns against such hostile tribes as the Sioux, Arapahoes and Cheyennes. A few years later for reasons now unknown the conquered Arapahoes were given U. S. military escort to the Shoshone lands, protected...
...others are no doubt aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know that I will be back on the same side from which I started, on or before the 4th of March next, when I will be ready to Swap Horses, Dispense Law, Make Jokes, Split Rails, and perform other matters in a small...