Word: discardable
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According to the rules, if the freshmen win they can discard their beanies; but if they lose they have to wear them until the Dartmouth-Cornell game. After the debacle Tuesday, the beanie issue was decided in favor of the freshmen...
...unhappy outcome when we discard the possibility of criminal action and can't convince people," commented Dr. Ford...
...ostrich feather business has one thing in common with the buggy-whip industry and the horse. All three were ruined by Henry Ford. When women began riding in open automobiles before World War I, they had to discard their majestic hats, crowned with glossy ostrich plumes. That spelled disaster for South Africa's ostrich farmers, who fed and plucked 1,000,000 ostriches every year. On the sun-baked Little Karoo plateau around Oudtshoorn, ostrich capital of the world, farmers killed their birds by the thousands, stripped the rich dark meat from the carcasses for stew. Flocks dwindled...
...word that issues from that pulpit has changed drastically, too. Except in the South, evangelical fervor is on the discard in most of the "leading" Protestant denominations. Methodist Hutchinson is not happy about what has replaced it: "A kind of preaching which, at its best, is in direct descent from the ethical insights of the Old Testament prophets, but which too often is diluted from that into something perilously akin to that careful moralism against which the Evangelical Revival revolted...
...your Dec. 18 medicine story "From the Discard" you state that diabetes and hardening of the arteries are generally encountered as complications of ACTH treatment. A temporary metabolic derangement resembling diabetes mellitus is occasionally (but by no means always) encountered following the administration of large amounts of ACTH, but the condition subsides when the hormone is stopped...