Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adjective, not a title. If a parson is not a doctor (D.D. or Ph.D.), he is, like other men, a mister.* Last week the Ministerial Association of Lansing, Mich, formally resolved that "in addressing one another, or in referring to one another in speech or in writing, we discard all titles except that of mister." Lansing's reverend misters hoped that their friends and the press would stop infuriating them...
What you must do is discard your paint...
...have long memories, sometimes tossing off the calls of summer birds in the dead of winter. Moreover, like humans, they occasionally go crazy over a popular bird tune number, most of the birds in a murmuration repeating it over & over until at last they get tired of it and discard it. Botanist Harry Ardell Allard of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has devotedly studied the mimicry of starlings, coaxing them to perform by placing nesting boxes outside his window. In Science last week he reported a prodigy. One starling, having imitated the long, low, monotonous call of a flicker...
...Herr Hitler did not begin by talking peace. In fact for almost an hour of his 80-minute address-a loosely knit discussion with few of the great dramatic lifts that characterized the Führer's oratory before he began to discard his street-corner style in favor of what he considers the more statesmanlike fashion-he talked about almost everything except peace. Germans and colored folk like their sermons long and discursive, and, in spite of a disordered world's need for straight plain talk, that is the way the Germans are still getting them from...
...Mills that manufacture brown paper obtain a black liquor from which chemicals can be recovered. Mills (like Marathon) that manufacture fine paper discard sulphite liquor...