Word: discarder
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This willingness on the part of the Communists to discard what was originally their fundamental ideal shows that Russia has passed from a state in which the revolution was considered only in so far as it was capable of universal application to one in which the revolution has been identified and merged with the traditional policy of Russia, and has assumed the attributes of Russian nationalism. Here there is an exact analogy to the development of France in the last decade of the eighteenth century, when the Republic slowly deserted its universalist notions for strictly nationalist ones. The decline...
...national income declining from 85 billions in 1929 to 40 billions in 1932, the church income dropped from $581,000,000 only to $378,000,000. Said the Federal Council's Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert: "The evidence certainly is that the American people are not ready to discard their churches...
...referring to a Mohammedan government or people some Western writers seem to find it difficult to discard a view associated with the old Ottoman regime to which they give such sensational expression as is conveyed by the statements "massacre of Christians" and "fanatical Mohammedan slaughter." Such reference is a misrepresentation of the actual prevailing intentions on the part of Mohammedans, people and government, in Irak and other Arab countries...
...minds as Dr. Albert Einstein and Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington have long pondered the possibility of a Maxwell-quantum equation. Dr. Einstein could have used it as part of his Unified Field Theory coordinating the laws of electromagnetism, gravity and, light, which he succeeded in expressing mathematically, only to discard the expression when flaws were detected. At first blush Professor Born's feat of cerebral acrobatics seems to hold real promise of help to Dr. Einstein in rebuilding the Unified Field Theory, to which he expects to devote the rest of his life...
...painting, acting, mingling in Rochester's mixed society. No fool, Horgan found he was no Chaliapin either. When he was offered a job as librarian in the New Mexico Military Institute he took it, still has it. Young (30), unmarried, Author Horgan has found time to write and discard five novels before The Fault of Angels, his first to be published...