Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What President Plutarco Elias Calles did was to scrap the first of two ideals which were originally envisioned in the Mexican Constitution of 1857 and later militantly transfused into the present Constitution...
...speak accurately, it was precisely ten gulden too much!'" Three hours later, Bogner, still impecunious, and Rasda's uncle, whose wife had sent with him eleven thousand gulden for her inamorata, called at Rasda's rooms; Bogner saw a thousand gulden, a crumpled scrap of paper on the table where Rasda had thrown it. Rasda had shot himself. He was lying on the dishevelled bed, a sticky gutter of blood marked from his temple down to the collar of his uniform. The Significance. Author Schnitzler's books are sudden, delicate, glittering and sharp. Daybreak is like...
...Scrap all war boats and military or naval aircraft...
...Shipman Coal bondholders last week cleansed. That letter read: "We could not conscientiously advise you to spend your money on this property. If you do not, the receivers doubtless will arrange immediately for the sale of the company's assets, which consist of operating equipment having practically a scrap value only...
...Stalin-Trotzky feud was seemingly quenched (TIME, Oct. 25) when Comrade Trotzky was forced to sign a pledge that he would not oppose or criticize the Stalin majority group. Last week this pledge seemed less than "a scrap of paper" as M. Trotzky stood up before the Comintern* and thundered opposition to Josef Stalin with all the moving fire of his famed spellbinding prowess. He urged that warlike "reprisals" be taken against Britain, demanded that pressure be brought on the Chinese Nationalists to proclaim a Chinese Soviet Republic, and generally flayed Dictator Stalin for not pushing with sufficient energy...