Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opening day was a nerve-racker for some. High-school students in Hazleton, Pa. went on strike when they learned that the school board had voted to abolish football. "No sports-no school," cried their picket signs. "Township unfair to students." Worcester, Mass, was trying to find a teacher of Lithuanian to satisfy the parents who wanted the language taught. Otherwise, Worcester was all set; for the first time since the war, the city had enough teachers. San Francisco and Denver reported the same...
...subcommittee found no reason why service stores should be exempt from excise taxes, ordered the stores to start collecting the tax. It also ordered the armed services to: 1) abolish all commissaries by Jan. 1, wherever adequate civilian facilities are available; 2) cut out all special orders; 3) keep luxury items off the shelves. The three services agreed to do so. Estimated loss to the military stores: 50% of their gross business...
...anglofobe, sofistry, sofomore, sofisticate, biografy. Magnanimously, the Trib granted "ph" the right to continue to exist at the start of words, e.g., philosofy, photog-rafer. Explained Amputator Astley-Cock: "It is a wise policy to recognize the universally valid principle of festina lente (hasten slowly). To abolish 'ph' at the beginning of words would mean to be out of line with the dictionary . . . Where, for instance, would a foreigner or student find 'fthisis' to learn that it meant tuberculosis...
...municipal council, but he wanted to rob the council of all real power by putting it under the veto-bound four-power Kommandatura. By week's end, Vishinsky had conceded a slight limitation of the four powers' veto in the Kommandatura, but the West wanted to abolish the veto entirely, except for security matters, and leave the Berliners' own government wide powers to run its affairs...
Nebraska became the first state to abolish rent ceilings under the new federal rent-control law. The one-house legislature last week passed the law over the veto of Governor Val Peterson, who was against rent control too, but wanted it to last until April i, 1950 to avoid the hardship of rent boosts and evictions during the rugged Nebraska winter. The new law left landlords free to charge whatever rents they please after Nov. i for the 91,000 houses and apartments in Nebraska that are now under federal controls...