Word: takings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...economic aid we send to Europe, at least on a short-run basis. Europe, partially due to war damage, partially to technical immaturity, can produce neither as cheaply nor as efficiently as the U.S. This means it cannot trade with us in a particularly equal give and take footing. But this situation is even further aggravated by the myriad trade barriers and currency controls still stretched onto the containment; these restrictions are actively preventing what Hoffman calls the "resumption of normal healthy trade...
...those agreements." His book is a flat, deadpan report on the eight-day trading session that embittered many a champion of "open covenants openly arrived at." It is the most complete report yet made and should be historically important, but many a reader will refuse to let Russian skulduggery take the whole rap for the Yaltese cross...
Graves's tale (based on historical fact) tells how vapid General Mendaña y Castro set sail from Callao, Peru with four ships to take possession of the dimly known Solomons and to convert the heathen -mostly into cash. But the heart of the book, like that of any pirate story, is Graves's evocation of the murderous plotting and quarreling that enlivened the long and miserable voyage: its sailors, soldiers, settlers and missionaries fall on one another (and on the hapless islanders) with a ferocity inspired equally by high zeal and abysmal greed...
Blood donations will take place today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, Kenneth D. Borg '50, chairman of the Phillips Brooks House Blood Drive Committee, announced last night...
Davison's two long runs trapped the Harvard guards and left the offensive guards free to go ahead of the play and take out the secondary. Davison had enough speed to take it from there...