Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in the midst of a campaign to scrap the existing constitution, Colombia's ruling Conservatives proclaimed that the father of the country was on their side. "We Conservatives," said the Bogota newspaper Eco National, "take pride in the illustrious ascendancy of the Liberator, with whose authoritarian ideas we are in accord...
...Without waiting for the state supreme court to decide on constitutionality, the regents of the University of California voted to scrap...
...ignoring or suppressing that awareness. But to some there comes a time when they hear screams in the night -screams "from the execution cellars ... from the torture chambers . . . from . . . the freezing filth of subarctic labor camps." For "there persists in every man, however he may deny it, a scrap of soul." The communist who does not stifle that scrap of soul begins to lose faith in his vision of man without God. Chambers records that his own loss of faith began on "a very casual" occasion. He was watching his daughter at her breakfast...
Blood separation could answer the radiation problems with oxygen bearing red cells, disease-fighting white cells, and homorrhage-controlling platelets. No longer would doctors have to "scrap a whole jeep when only a part is needed" by using whole blood instead of a plasma fraction...
Time Saver. With $6.50 worth of scrap metal, Marvin E. Brown, a mine foreman for Birmingham's Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., invented a new coal-handling device. The company found that the invention, an angled leg for the conveyor belt, saved two-thirds of the time ordinarily required to shift heavy conveyor pans used to carry coal from the working face to mine cars, eliminated the need for knocking out mine props while the conveyor pans were being moved. For the gadget, the company last week paid Brown...