Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This creature, whom old grads regard this week with such envy, was amazed to read one spring morning that hour examinations, midyear probation, and compulsory attendance at classes had all been thrown into discard. While these changes, may seem superficial to our older colleagues, they are significant in that they place responsibility directly on the student. In an age when older men consider jobs for the young college graduate only a myth, it is certainly wise to equip him at least with independence and initiative so that he can sail before the wind on this sea of confusion with...
...could have his way Henry Pu Yi would like to be proclaimed constitutional Emperor of Manchukuo with as simple and comfortable a ceremony as the proclamation of last week's other new monarch, Leopold III of Belgium. But the Japan that picked him from the Chinese discard ten years ago has not paid his bills for nothing. Japan needs him as a symbol before the world of Manchukuo's independence, a hollow-eyed figurehead to distract Manchurian peasants with the pomp of a royal court...
...Most of our news comes direct from our own sources. Other papers get things we miss, however, and this is called 'punk.' In the first editions of every day's paper some of this 'punk' is included to fill space. As other news comes in we discard it, until in the last three editions it is all thrown...
...evident, almost from the first. Moscow wins the debate, the Social Democrats lived up to their reputations, made the customary strategical mistakes; but--was the debate worth winning? The Kremlin has scored its point, but it has lost Vienna. Surely it would have been more worthwhile to discard this prim sectarian attitude and to have played ball with the Socialists, more worthwhile to cooperate, underground if necessary, with the Austrian government and to bring all possible pressure for direct, speedy action to bear upon the Central Committee, rather than smugly to tell the defeated Viennese, "We told...
...most important issue is to prevail upon him [man] to discard his dismal attire of bygone days and dress him for the New Deal...