Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves to no party at the Conference. They are not going to give up the idea of the League and they are trying their best to get us into it. They know that world organization is the only hope for world brotherhood. If America thinks she is going to scrap international co-operation she is very much mistaken...
Clearly it is an individual problem, this query of "Why the Who's Are Who"; and one which can be worked out mpore easily in college, perhaps, than elsewhere. Once let the assumption that a scrap of fame be forgotten, and the theory that marks are of themselves the be-all and the end-all be allowed to accumulate cob-webs, and we shall be able to show Mr. Butler that so long as "Pigs is Pigs," colleges is colleges...
...With a view to determining the best method of developing the ship scrapping industry in the United States," so runs a dispatch from Washington, "the Paymaster General of the Navy has invited representative groups of financiers, steel operators, shipbuilders, scrap dealers, chambers of commerce, and editors of trade papers to meet this week at the Philadelphia Navy Yard." It is not too big a meeting when the tonnage involved runs into the millions. Part of it will be actual scrapping, we presume, as when Mr. Ford offers to wave the magic acetylene torch and turn gun-turrets into livers. Part...
...that year, with manuscript notes of the toasts given at the dinner at which Lafayette was a guest, a play--bill of the theatrical performance in his honor in New York, various biographies called forth by his presence here, a collection of poems in his honor, and a scrap--book of newspaper clippings tracing his progress from town to town...
...American proposal, which was to stop the competition in building navies. The essential element in that competition is the battle fleet. The only basis on which that competition can be stopped is to leave those battle fleets as they are. The United States therefore has proposed to scrap every battle ship and battle cruiser in the American, British, and Japanese navies, that was not actually in commission and useful for battle purposes. As estimated in displacement tonnage that leaves the ratio between the American, British, and Japanese navies as 10-10-6; that is for every ten tons that America...