Word: discards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...long months will the. White Paper come up before Britain's Parliament to be enacted and give a new. more liberal Constitution to India or to be thrown into the discard. Not being in a hurry, the Conservative Conference voted last week 838 to 356 for "Safety First" Stanley Baldwin. It broke up amid more singing of "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow," thus firmly convinced Mrs. Stanley Baldwin all over again that God is in his Heaven and all is right with the English world...
...paper dollars would save them $500,000 per year in interest. A year ago the "gold clause" in domestic obligations, originated after the Civil War as a protection against "greenbackery," seemed legally impregnable, the very heart of the contract. Almost overnight President Roosevelt had swept it into the discard-and economic life went on about the same. Lawyers talked of taking a test case to the Supreme Court but admitted that their chief obstacle lay in proving that a bondholder had been actually damaged by being paid in paper money instead of in gold coin. Hoarders. Up last week also...