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Word: discards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already the half-hearted efforts of the Varsity debating team to discard the practice has resulted in several trimmings at the hands of Boston University. so much the better. And now, when emphasis in debating is being shifted to the Houses and expanded in its scope, it is time that the Oxford system without decisions displace as rapidly as is convenient the present training course for sophists and shysters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING | 2/8/1934 | See Source »

...took the jury just 51 minutes to sweep Wexler's story into the discard, bring in a verdict of guilty on all counts. Wexler's jaw sagged and he gulped hard as the judge fined him $80,000, sentenced him to ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: End of Wexler | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...once the rally habit has been regained, why discard it? Why not a rally every Friday before the games and even before the Wednesday scrimmages? To some this may seem overemphasis, but to me it symbolizes the dawn of a new era of victorious teams and of lettermen who are not afraid to wear their H's in the Yard! Yours for "College Spirit," "Brown of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally? | 11/23/1933 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIG BLACK BEAR | 11/16/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Churches & Money | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

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