Word: abolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler's General Fritz Erich von Manstein had thrown some 100,000 men into this effort to smash Russia's last strong hold on the Crimea, to abolish the southern anchor of the long Russian front, to win command of the Black Sea, to open one gate to the oil-rich Caucasus. He also threw in planes, so many that the Russians soon—and ominously—admitted that the few Russian aircraft able to operate within Sevastopol's narrowed defense area were greatly outnumbered...
Last fortnight, using all his legislative skill, Senator McKellar tried to attach a dog collar for TVA to an appropriation bill: he wanted to abolish TVA's revolving fund and thus make it run to Congress -and McKellar-for every penny of its building funds. Debate in the Senate was hot and mean; McKellar got so enraged that he scrambled his facts, to the point of losing geographical track of the Tennessee River. Gentle old Senator George W. Norris, father of TVA, said flatly that McKellar's amendment would be "almost disastrous." Lilienthal said its effect would...
Although die-hard labor-baiters still vowed that they would finally abolish the 40-hour week, the battle (TIME, March 30) seemed to have lapsed into a temporary truce...
...City's Oklahoman asked that its readers "solemnly pledge that I will refuse to vote for the re-election of any U.S. Senator or Congressman who does not consistently vote for a law outlawing all strikes in every industry connected with defense and who does not vote to abolish the limitations of 40-hour week labor...
This very tutorial system, which is the essence of modern liberal education, is at the same time one of the newest and most expensive methods of teaching. The money-worried administrators of Princeton University have found it so expensive that they have just decided to "abolish it for the summer term." And outraged undergraduates, watching the descent of the guillotine, claimed that this move was "a denial" of the value of the tutorial system itself, and "cheapened" the University degree. "If, as each crisis arrives," they read between the lines, "the economy is effected at the expense of the essential...