Word: discardable
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...value, but a few interesting biographies, histories, and novels might be culled from among them and dedicated to the better cheer of sufferers in Stillman. In the past certain tutors and instructors have set a fine example by giving in the same cause books which they were about to discard. If undergraduates and others would follow that plan, in time a respectable library might be built...
California holds fast. The Sunshine State still likes the cards she is being dealt, judging by the recent primaries, and the North-West feels likewise. In the Great Plains the outlook is uncertain, although Presidential responsibility for droughts is a theory not yet completely in the discard...
This creature, whom old grads regard this week with such envy, was amazed to read one spring morning that hour examinations, midyear probation, and compulsory attendance at classes had all been thrown into discard. While these changes, may seem superficial to our older colleagues, they are significant in that they place responsibility directly on the student. In an age when older men consider jobs for the young college graduate only a myth, it is certainly wise to equip him at least with independence and initiative so that he can sail before the wind on this sea of confusion with...
...could have his way Henry Pu Yi would like to be proclaimed constitutional Emperor of Manchukuo with as simple and comfortable a ceremony as the proclamation of last week's other new monarch, Leopold III of Belgium. But the Japan that picked him from the Chinese discard ten years ago has not paid his bills for nothing. Japan needs him as a symbol before the world of Manchukuo's independence, a hollow-eyed figurehead to distract Manchurian peasants with the pomp of a royal court...
...Most of our news comes direct from our own sources. Other papers get things we miss, however, and this is called 'punk.' In the first editions of every day's paper some of this 'punk' is included to fill space. As other news comes in we discard it, until in the last three editions it is all thrown...