Word: abolishing
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...this fellow he not only hated prunes he wanted to ABOLISH them to crush the very germ out and gee whiz we had a swell machine on the stage with colored lights and the pits came out the end like bullets out of a machine-gun against a copper gong. . . . Bill Glackens* always was the villain, and he comes on with a long mustache covered with furs looking rich as hell. Lucy Moore spurns him 'cause he wants the machine as a prune pitter to make pies but wait a minute you haven't heard anything there...
...large group of those answering the questionnaire, besides desiring to abolish elementary rules, asked for a further liberalization to permit a free choice of a reading knowledge in any two languages as the means of satisfying the regulations. Most rated modern languages as more important than Latin and Greek, and quite a few were indignant at the present position assigned to Spanish and Italian...
...these elections, the A. F. of L. roared its protest when President Roosevelt renewed the Automobile Code, extending it to the legal date of NRA's expiration, June 16. The President did not consult the A. F. of L., did not stipulate a 30-hr. week, did not abolish the hated merit clause. But what galled the Federation most was that, in renewing the Code, the President provided that the Wolman Board should continue to be binding on the industry...
...rare treat to be allowed to see such a brilliant and learned letter as the one addressed to Mr. Conant protesting the recommendation in his annual report to abolish the Latin requirement for an A.B. degree. With fine generosity the authors have had their efforts printed and sent to all the officers of the University gratis (a Latin word), though with seemly modesty they use the aliases, "Harvard '22," and "Harvard...
...very reason for the Antitrust Acts themselves. But that was price control downward in an effort to destroy competition. . . . NRA price stabilizations were all for exactly the reverse purpose-to prevent cut-throat and monopolistic price slashing, to maintain small industry, to continue employment, to abolish economic murder...