Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certain prominent members of the astute though human faculty, realizing great possibilities for new philosophical tendencies arising out of the broad-mindedness of these operators, regularly pay them social calls in which they "talk shop" and swap yarns under checkered circumstances...
...your issue of Oct. 17, you have a note "Swap" in the Miscellany column regarding the ad in Stamps of one Carl Percy wanting to swap a nine-room house for a stamp collection...
...note in itself is all right, but putting it in the "Miscellany" column is where I think you are wrong. For, as all good TIMERS know, that column is made up of what one might term queer happenings, and there is nothing "queer" about that. Many a collector would swap A1 (?) stocks and bonds or real estate for good stamps, knowing their investment would be safer...
...Swap In Mexico City's penitentiary, Martinez Carrillo who wanted food & lodging changed clothes with Convict Ruiz Moreno who wanted freedom. Citizen Carrillo went to Moreno's cell, Convict Moreno out into the night...
Political activity in a college is at best a thankless pursuit, and it is made so by the indifference of the students. It is very disheartening to hear people announce that they will support Hoover "because it is a bad plan 'to swap horses in the middle of the stream", or that they will vote for Roosevelt "because he is a Democrat and we need a change", or that Thomas is to receive their support "because neither of the other men is any good anyway". Another typical student attitude is that politics are dishonest and are no place...