Word: discards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them lean, balding FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly last week took to the air. Gist of his defense: if RCA's transmission methods should be superseded by technological developments (now being tested by Philco, DuMont and other RCA competitors), its sets would be useless, purchasers might have to discard them as obsolescent. To make his statement...
...golfer, the 13-spade hand to the bridge player. . . . Three generations of our family watched and waited for it, in vain, till on a rainy night in the winter of '32, when playing with my husband before the traditional blazing logs, I picked up my hand. After the discard, I held 5D, S, C and Jack H. Tensely, I said: "Careful, now. If you cut me the 5 of hearts, I'll have the 29 hand." He cut; I turned the card; it was the 5 of hearts...
...deeper. About 40 years ago, the Finnish people resolved among themselves that they would abolish all foreign names of their families, substituting therefor the ancient family names of their forefathers. It was agreed that on a given day, all Swedish and foreign family names would be dumped into the discard and their ancient family names, which had prevailed for centuries, should be restored. This program, carried out with terrible Finnish efficiency prevailed in spite of the chaotic situations developed thereby...
...even this failed to iron out all of the family complication. Helenius had an unmarried sister who insisted that she was not a Helenius and not a Trygg. So far as she was concerned there seemed to be no way of solving the problem except to discard the two family names and limit her name to Seppala. This was done...