Word: abolitionism
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Nehru dissented. Speaking softly, he urged the total abolition of all atomic weapons and experiments: "The hydrogen bomb has made war obsolete as an instrument of policy, and the continued development of the weapon threatens all civilization." Menzies "utterly disagreed."
"Minor" and "major" has long differentiated not only sports but players. But several years ago Princeton did away with this distinction, and Yale students have also agitated for its abolition. The Undergraduate Athletic Council should study this problem, and should recommend to the Faculty that the "major" and "minor" distinction...
That night he attended an hour-long reception and then marched into the main dining room of the Ambassador Hotel for his birthday banquet. In his main address, General MacArthur made a cloud-high. impassioned appeal for "the abolition of war,"* but his words-in vintage MacArthur oratory-on youth...
* Some editors seemed startled by the "abolition of war" line, although it has been standard MacArthur fare since 1945, when he accepted the Japanese surrender on the Missouri. He wrote the famed no-war, no-arms clause in the Japanese Constitution, and in scores of Tokyo conversations with visiting Americans...
Then in 1939, the CRIMSON launched a campaign seeking abolition of the cram pariors and banned their advertising from its columns. Within a month, the University threatened to expel any student who sold his lecture notes. Professors laid traps in their exams for students who used canned answers provided by...