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Word: swaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here & there last week, as every week, men paused to chat and swap stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...monster of the enemy starting line is BILL McLELLAN, 240-pound right tackle. He will swap blocks with Crimson tackle Will Davis, who spots him a more 45 pounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Order of Finn-an Haddie, Coming Up . . . | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...turns out that the two men are utterly helpless ninnies. Without a woman's guiding hand, they would doodle their lives away. Peggy's husband is ready to swap his teaching career for a mess of lettuce; the professor wavers on the brink of suicide. Both are rescued from their weaker natural instincts by the gay, brave, ginghamed Little Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...abruptly stopped haggling with Republic, turned to Henry Kaiser, who had once shown an interest in the plant. Asked Larson: Would Kaiser be willing to pay a minimum rent of $800,000 a year? Kaiser, who needs steel for his Kaiser-Frazer automobiles and knows that he can swap pig iron for it, jumped at the offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galoola Bird | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Moscow took its own time about sending an answer. What the Kremlin wanted was a Big Four conference preferably while the blockade was still on, not just about Berlin but about all of Germany-and maybe more. That would give the Russians a chance to swap Berlin for Western concessions elsewhere-e.g., scrapping plans for a Western German state (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Purchase of Freedom | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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