Word: junking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next step at Harvard is for the H.A.A. to junk the farcical student control which the so-called "representative" athletic committees now fail to provide and set up some system whereby athletics can be made to serve all students, Varsity and non-varsity alike. With everyone paying ten dollars, an active voice which can be heard is only fair. One of the most obvious methods by which this can be achieved is indicated by the system of student managers, broad participation, and consequent undergraduate control which have been so successful at Yale. Only by the adoption of the Council...
...Army officers climbed into the hold of the Mar Cantabrico, found 32 field kitchens which the Army had sold as junk, sternly forbade the ship to sail until the stenciled "U. S. Army" was painted out on the kitchens. Customs agents forced a big crate of shoes to be torn open because it weighed 400 lb. and they thought shoes should not weigh so much...
...Army depots and at Dayton Brigadier General Augustine W. Robins, chief of the Materiel Division of the Air Corps, firmly announced that ''it will not be shipped until money for the purchase has arrived." Envious airplane dealers observed that Mr. Cuse had picked up his consignment at "junk prices," should make between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 on the deal...
...surrealists are serious. Some strive diligently to apply the Breton esthetic, while others are merely frivolous daubers and assemblers of miscellaneous junk. Nevertheless, one thing almost all surrealists have in common is an instinct for dramatic titles. Thumbing through the catalog last week gallery goers lifted eye brows at the following items : Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (de Chirico...
...humor on the reverse side of their ballots. A Rabbit complained, "I do not like my girl's friends and my girl does not like my friends' girls." A Deacon objected to the red tape involved, stating, "I had to ask unknown woman to accompany us while getting junk upstairs...