Word: discards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...independent offices, he paused, stood up, read parts of it, tossed it aside. Then he sat down. The scratch of his pen blended with the blurred bumble of voices coming through the swinging doors to the Senate chamber. A second bill went into the discard-a last-minute measure by South Carolina's Smith providing for a government cotton pool in return for acreage reduction. Herbert Hoover still had a mind of his own and he was determined to use it until the final minute. His rejection of the cotton bill set the head of outgoing Secretary of Agriculture...
...than do those of other newspapers, exhale a reminiscent fragrance. They are an assurance that no traditional detail will over be lightly omitted, from the Alpha of the financial advertisement on page one, to the Omega of the obituaries. It is unthinkable that a silly girl should unreflectingly discard such a very Palladium of her caste, and altogether fitting that she felt the proper remorse after the foolish act was committed...
...saved from being a complete waste of celluloid it is by the star and her director. No one who remembers the "Merry Widow" can quite forgive Von sternberg his recent perpetrations, but "use doth breed a habit in a man" and the director has not been able to discard his former habits of originality and his finesse, even though sloppy work is now the mode for Hollywood. He knows very well how to make a good shot, how to make five extra and Marlene Dietrich Paddling about in a property pound look like six syivan nymphs; he can throw...
Monocles? Junker Cabinet of Monocles is too apt a phrase to discard. The members all act like Junkers; they look as if they should wear monocles. Actually none of them do, and only one member is a true Junker in the narrowest sense: a Protestant landowner from East Prussia, Minister of the Interior Baron Wilhelm von Gayl...
...hysterograph or womb register-has already proved useful to obstetrics. There are a dozen drugs commonly used to save a woman pain and exertion during her labor. The Dodek device indicates just how the uterine musculature reacts to each drug, tells when it is advisable to use one, to discard another...