Word: swappings
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When Cambridge began to organize its system of wardens, fireman, and policeman, it faced the problem of finding a place to drill. The University, undertaking a parallel task, was handicapped by a lack of equipment and trained instructors. They agreed to swap. Cambridge got the use of Memorial Hall; the University was given an opportunity to train its fireman in the station on Harvard Street. Since that first step, plans for even more cooperation have been made and carried to completion. Fire and plane spotters, for example, will be stationed atop Memorial Hall, Widener, and the Houses, for these...
...anonymous, footsore young actors is the vast, bare-tabled, coffee-smelling basement of Walgreen's drugstore in Times Square. Into this "poor man's Sardi's," every noon, swarm the occupants of a thousand hall bedrooms, to eat and table-hop, jam the phone booths, swap hard-luck stories, pick up casting tips. Lately they have also been coming to buy a nickel's worth of reading matter...
...Cutten believes that college graduates should marry early and have plenty of children. He has three himself. No crony of his faculty or students (says he: "A college president has no friends"), he likes to fish and swap yarns with Yale's Professor Emeritus Billy Phelps. His prime hobby is collecting antique American silver spoons, of which he now has the finest collection in the U.S. At Colgate he often retires to his workshop to hammer spoons himself...
...Major Fleet, 54, the deal is his best chance to swap his huge holdings for hard cash, thus pave the way to diversified investments and an easier life. Trying to sell his shares, Fleet started dickering with...
Friday. The President intimated that some time ago he told his envoy to Moscow to try to swap some Lend-Lease for some religious freedom. Father Walsh backtracks, praises the President's constructive efforts...