Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year barter agreement between the Manchurian comrades and the Russian comrades. It will swap Manchurian soybeans and other raw stuffs for Russian machinery...
...went to the famed Shwe Dagon Pagoda in observance of Taboung, the lunar year-end festival which comes with the March full moon. A photographer circling around him disturbed Thakin Nu's prayers. The Premier looked up at him, grinned, and said in crisp English: "Let's swap jobs...
Many readers will feel that they would gladly swap places with Charley and take their chances on happiness. Novelist Marquand is pretty sure that they would wind up with the same empty feeling. Says he: "Everybody says 'life is what you make it' and it seems to me, by God, it's mostly environment you're coping with and you have mighty little chance to make it yourself. I don't see that many people are particularly captains of their fate. They bat it out, but do they really get what they want...
Advocate & Executor. But he remained loyal to Roosevelt. Acheson was one of the torchbearers in the 1940 campaign to put U.S. aid squarely behind Britain and France. He and three lawyer colleagues had written and made public a lawyer's brief supporting Roosevelt's right to swap the 50 U.S. destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Cordell Hull, Roosevelt invited Acheson back into his family as Assistant Secretary of State. Acheson gave up his law practice to take the $9,000-a-year...
...anyone cares to remember, the major social athletic event of the winte season has been the Harvard Dartmouth hockey game. Annually at one of the hippodromes of the Boston Garden Areas Corporation, some 5,000 loyal alumni of the two institutions assemble to cheer on their respective squads and swap insluts among themselves...