Word: wastebasketful
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...audience of 75 people half filled Sever 11 yesterday noon to hear Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, and five other speakers advocate consigning the entire Neutrality Act to the wastebasket...
...late and he wasn't even sure how to get to the darn dormitory. Vag half-ran, half-walked across the Cambridge Common toward the Commander Hotel. He knew that was in the general direction of Radcliffe, but his face was flushed from hurrying and his mind was a wastebasket of torn-off thoughts. He couldn't even remember exactly what she looked like. He had danced with her when he crashed the Freshman get-together; taken her out for a cigarette; walked her home . . . and the conversation had never once sunken to the level of "What courses...
That list went into the wastebasket months ago. So had an even more optimistic one which preceded it. So did a third which followed it. OPM's fourth schedule called for 1.268 planes in April, 1,575 m June, and so on up to 3,300 in September 1942-the equivalent of present German capacity. April production beat the new schedule's quota-so far so good...
Says Daily Express Editor Arthur Christiansen: "I empty my own wastebasket. Those of us who don't get called up have to do everybody's jobs. We are working like dogs...
...Baker pulling out the first of 10,500 capsules. However, the jar is definitely not the one illustrated in TIME, Nov. 11. Mr. Baker's 1917 jar is shaped like a fishbowl and has a small mouth whereas the jar shown in TIME looks like a large glass wastebasket...