Word: discard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Albert Victor, son of the Prince of Wales, is now to be educated at Christ Church, Oxford. Like his uncle, Prince Leopold, he will wear cap and gown only on occasions where they are required by law, and even then he will discard the gold tassel on the cap and silk gown of the cut that distinguishes, or rather used to distinguish, the gentleman-commoner from the nobleman...
Secondly, let the proctors keep still, if they can, and let them discard squeaky boots. Common sense alone ought to keep them from walking about, except to answer inquiries, and they can watch us just as well from one end or one side of the room, or from the middle, if they will only stay there. A proctor ought to know before he comes to an examination whether his boots creak or not; if they do, he can get a pair of felt slippers for sixty-five cents. Or if he sits down, as he ought...
...hoped that the nine will discard their caps in favor of the more becoming hats, on appearing before a Cambridge audience. - [Yale News...
PROFESSOR in Philosophy. - "But suppose I renounce all the philosophical doctrines of the ancients and the teaching of Scripture; suppose I discard everything...
Pokerful Junior. - "Don, I discard everything. Stick an ace up your sleeve and draw to the king." - Columbia Spectator...