Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once I ventured meekly to suggest that the best way to prevent crime was not to abolish the police force but to maintain an adequate and well-trained one. Gazing at me pityingly, Mr. Hoover turned to the rest of the class and remarked with clinical detachment: "In Miss Willson, young women, you have a perfect example of economic predetermination...
...next move is up to the House masters. They alone have the power to abolish the current system, which is irritatingly outdated now that the standard rate prevails. Some sort of investigation seems to be the only fair answer to the hapless students who maintain that a greater amount of liberty would lessen "that restricted feeling...
...sink a U.S. warship, or "even more outrageous," an attack from undersea on an unidentified surface boat, indicating a policy of indiscriminate, unrestricted submarine warfare. Said the President: "This was piracy." But this attack and the other attacks were, he continued, part of a pattern, a Nazi design to abolish freedom of the seas in order to control and dominate the world. He mentioned other Nazi plots*; Of Panama registry though all four were U.S.-owned. in Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia -aimed at the same goal...
Scholarliness is too often a synonym for dullness, even the pages of the "Guardian," but R. A. Horne's "Can Congress Abolish the Poll Tax?" holds the reader's interest throughout, yet discusses a complicated legal and constitutional question in all its ramification. Hence also manage to provide a thorough background for his particular subjects with a few paragraphs on the whole poll tax situation...
This was meant to bring together the honors man and a Faculty member in close collaboration on a "dissertation." But in practice the thesis courses, conducted by individual conferences, degenerated into little more than subterfuges for half-course reduction. Accordingly the Faculty voted last Tuesday to abolish them...