Word: abolishing
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...instrument, Professor Theremin announced, was to abolish the mechanical difficulties of technique, to place music-making within the scope of anyone able to hum a tune. Rights of manufacture, he hinted, were for sale...
...help shove some of the mountains which must be moved if Russia is to increase her industrial production by one-third, the Union Council of People's Commissars debated last week a decree which would abolish Sunday, institute a seven-day working week in all factories and other Russian institutions. Said Moscow's daily Pravda, seemingly confident that the measure would be adopted...
...must not move too hastily. Perhaps the first thing to abolish is the collar stud. We really must get rid of that. You know, men have far too many buttons to trouble them...
...They saw steely, Atheist Russia, land of Communism, attacking and destroying what they held dearest: the great Zionist movement which has already given Jews a city of their own, Tel Aviv, close to historic Jaffa. They heard about Jews in Russia who had turned against Jew, striving to abolish from Russia all traces of Judaism. Cleveland's Rabbi Barnett Robert Brickner, fresh from a trip abroad, told his listeners that leading officials had told him it is "the ambition of the Yevseksia [Jewish branch of the Communist party] that the Jewish people in that country shall be assimilated first...
Would it not be much more sensible to abolish some of these officials altogether or if they must be retained, have them chosen by a form of competition? In order to prevent the stigma of "office-seeker" from being attached to any individual, the contestants should be named by the nominating committee, with the possibility of adding names by petition as is now the custom. This system could be successfully applied at least to the offices of class poet and class odist. The poems submitted by these men should be voted on as to their merit but should...