Word: abolishing
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...Biblical history and literature which every student is expected to pass during his first year, unless he has taken a similar test in preparatory school. Most students cram for a week, hope that luck will carry them through Divvers; but many try it several times before succeeding. To consider abolishing Divvers, the Congregation (an official body) of Oxford met lately in Sheldonian Theatre, debated for go minutes. Proposing abolition, a Mr. Parker of Magdalen said that the examination should be given before, not after, matriculation. Alarmed, the practical Provost of Oriel demanded how the University, in that case, could make...
...President Patrick H. Joyce (TIME, Nov. 16). Ancient tradition of railroading is that passenger departments must be represented by swank offices in the business and shopping centres of major cities. Convenient but expensive, this idea was challenged for the first time last week when Great Western announced it would abolish all such offices. Passengers in Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Minneapolis will have to go to the station for their tickets; the road will not even share in a Consolidated Office...
...Biblical history and literature which every student is expected to pass during his first year unless he has taken a similar test in preparatory school. Most students cram for a week, hope that lick will carry them through Divvers; but many try it several times before succeeding. To consider abolishing Divvers, the Congregation (an official body) of Oxford met lately in Sheldonian Theatre, debated for 90 minutes. Proposing abolition, a Mr. Parker of Magdalen said that the examination should be given before, not after, matriculation. Alarmed, the practical Provost of Oriel demanded how the University, in that case, could make...
With the proposal to abolish compulsory military service few would care to quarrel. So long as men are deliberated trained for war, even as a defeuse measure, war will be possible. It would be superfluous to repeat this truism if there were not large and influential groups which fall to recognize it. Dr. Bntler's cardinal proposal, however, that the War Department be abolished in favor of a Department of National Defense, is of more doubtful value. To hide the business of war behind a euphemism while retaining its nature is at best a well-meant subterfuge. It is pleasant...
...Fascist Dictatorship should abolish wages, enroll the able-bodied citizenry (except Jews) in State labor divisions, and distribute food by a system of rationing to everyone (except Jews, who would starve...