Word: discards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evil days." Nobody will dispute his statement. The front page of the issue in which the London Times described the victory at Trafalgar was covered with advertisements, modest and factual. The modern newspaper and periodical is plastered with notices which appeal primarily to the emotions. We are asked to discard our reasoning faculties and buy a certain mattress because a certain society leader allowed one to be photographed in her house; to buy a certain cigarette because a movie actress finds its advertisements a convenient vehicle for her publicity; to buy a new car because the paint job resembles...
...action. Editors began to tut-tut him as a presidential possibility. Soon Mr Baker dropped his League issue like a hot cake assured the country that he would not take the U. S. in even if he had the power to do so, advised Democrats to discard the question as a partisan issue. Most people were convinced that this about-face meant that Newton Baker was a real, if inactive, candidate for the Presidency...
...essential to avoid 'blind alleys' in a business career," he continued, "but men too often discard obscure jobs because of their fear of 'blind alleys,' and thus lose that valuable experience in the elementary phases of a business which is so valuable to the executive later...
...poll the results may be decidedly beneficial. It covers a sufficiently large sector of the population to enable a politician to judge the trend of his constituents' convictions. To all except a few fanatics, Prohibition has, even in daily conversation, dwindled in importance. Could the candidates for office frankly discard this question, their election would be decided on more consequential issues of economic relief and international cooperation...
...That the new French plan for an International Police Force directed by the League of Nations be discarded (this discard proposed by Italy and Russia, with Britain egging them on openly, Germany and the U. S. covertly). > That all "aggressive armaments" be discarded by all nations, provided this be done by an "organic plan'' (proposed by Italy...