Word: discardable
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...theory that the momentous games in a gridiron schedule do not come until November is passing completely into the discard. A good half dozen contests today have the true "big game" tinge. They have aroused big game enthusiasm and will draw capacity crowds...
...criminals should be the aim of public guardians of peace and order. The clinics which have been established in connection with police courts in many of the more progressive cities are a promising first step. But before even such a step can be generally taken public opinion must discard the notions which have survived since the days of prison ships and quarry dungeons...
...basement of Persis Smith Hall, used for years as the shooting gallery of the University rifle team, will discard its military aspect this year, for that of a linen storeroom...
...stand in the way of creating respect for all laws and especially obedience to the Volstead Act is not in the least convincing to those people who doubt the value of law in general and prohibition statutes in particular; yet it is this class that must be persuaded to discard "wet" humor. The only needed reason for discarding the prohibition joke is obviously that it is no longer funny. While the real arguments may not have been stated it is, nevertheless, surprising that the cultivated Eastern editors who have gone on blithely printing reams of "wet" criticisms should hear...
There is, on the other hand, at least one bright spot. Hereafter the nervous declarer will no longer be forced to hesitate between a trump and a discard while his agonized dummy, who has seen both the other hands, twitches spasmodically across the table; and their will be considerably less recklessness when one can forecast accurately whether one's opponent is about to down four of a kind, or merely two pairs...