Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disturbances. "States powerful enough to make demands need not feel bound by promises," argues Mustapha Kemal from Constantinople; and his representatives at the approaching Lauzanne conference are accordingly instructed that the treaties of the old Sultan as well as the recent Mudania pact are all in the scrap basket together...
...make this statement because we have noticed the tendency of student liberal clubs throughout the country (with the expception of the University organiztion, which occasionally chastises it self with a non-redical speaker) to scrap all wise conservation; implying that they imbibed it in their cradles, and having after maturer judgment found it useless, have discarded it... Teir error in rgarding conservatism as stationary (if it were there would still be party in ngald fovour fedal dues and maschuesetts legislators constructing pillories), in denying that there is progressive conservatism perpetually teaching a lession. It does not keep us from going...
...Quadrangler feels that it would be deplorable "if the old-fashioned college, unable to stand the strain of competitions, were forced either out of existence entirely or to scrap its early ideals and life-long traditions." And we agree entirely, although to do so may seem inconsistent with the impression of our attitude that our correspondent has. The latter speaks of the "new tendency" and our apparent fear or contempt of it. "We are" says Cyril, "afraid of nothing; and as for contempt, that is a snobbish feeling, and snobbery arises out of fear that someone will discover...
...Sullivan first spoke of the opening day, which Mr. Balfour has called "unique in history", in which Mr. Hughes electrified his audience and startled the world by making a concrete proposal that Great Britain and the United States should scrap a certain number of their battleships...
...United States, but finally dropped on account of France's objections. "The conference might have gone beyond its boundaries, gone beyond the Hughes proposal", he said, "it might have done a thing that would have had an angelic effect on the world, had not France refused to agree to scrap her submarines...