Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time Paris newspapers were charging, without a scrap of evidence, that "evidently there has been sabotage by secret foreign agents." Much flustered, French Minister of Merchant Marine Léon Meyer called such an-explanation "too easy," suggested off his own bat that fires on modernistically decorated liners might be "due to the use of too exotic woods." He rushed off to Cherbourg "to institute an inquiry which I promise shall be searching and severe...
...years [since the Treaty of Versailles] we have in our international life insisted on the sanctity of the written word! . . . Whatever may happen, what ever may be our passions and quarrels, let us remain faithful to the signature given, so that the document signed will not be a 'scrap of paper...
...Publisher Lamade whose white hair is the only sign of his age?73. He was a $12-a-week printer on the Williamsport Daily Sun & Banner in 1882 when Grit first appeared as the Banner's Saturday afternoon edition. It made a poor start. Its publishers were about to scrap it when Printer Lamade got two other men to help him buy it, publish it separately in another shop. Grit Publishing Co. was founded with a capital of $ 1,000, of which $150 was Dietrick Lamade's savings...
...from being dashed against the side of the ship. After a breathless, drenching hour, the monkey rope was passed through the hole, the plug hammered home. On the inside Staff Captain Giorgio Cavallini and the chief engineer, waist deep in water, sealed the patch with cement mixed-with scrap metal...
Next most objectionable to Colonel von Papen in Germany is his former Minister of Interior, Baron von Gayl who is everywhere suspected of having urged the "Cabinet of Monocles" to scrap the Republican Constitution and restore Hohenzollern rule. Last week Chancellor von Schleicher avoided re-appointing Baron von Gayl, did reappoint in his Cabinet most other members of the "Cabinet of Monocles." The new slate...