Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have to concentrate in developing just a few boxers to form the team, and those who were not good enough for the team would receive less attention. The crowd at a fight is apt to be obnoxious, yelling not so much for the college as for a good scrap. Newspaper accounts of intercollegiate boxing are exactly like the write-ups of professional pugilistic combats. Each bloody detail is vividly described and emphasis is laid on all the more unpleasant parts of the bout. In this way the sport of boxing is lost...
...expression of his views in the critical period of the siege of Boston in 1775, lost by its owner soon after in the British retreat from Philadelphia, buried for almost a century in the possessions of a Connecticut family, unearthed by Elizabeth Ellery Dana, and forever rescued from the scrap heap of history by the Harvard University Press--this, in brief, is the story of the "Diary of a British officer in Boston in 1775" which will shortly issue from the Press...
...projects which the Labor Ministry planned to scrap was that of the Singapore Naval Base (TIME...
...necessary for a religion as much as they are necessary for the government. Mankind should have the institutions that suites them best--they should see the institutions of other groups of people and derive inspiration from them but not become aggressive like the Bolsheviks and go out to scrap other's institutions to introduce their own instead: Just as the U. S. Constitution has in it the best principles of the older constitutions of other nations and as the new nations that have come into being during the past war period are showing the good sense in profiting by such...
...there was peace-a treaty had been signed with the British. But in New Orleans the treaty was even less than a scrap of paper, for its existence was not known. Accordingly, on that day, General Andrew Jackson inflicted a decisive defeat on a British army before the city. Of late years it has been the custom of Democrats to celebrate Jan. 8, "Jackson Day," once every four years, by a dinner in Washington...