Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, who came into power in a "legal," bloodless coup last month, still has to operate under Panama's weird, elastic, near-totalitarian constitution. Indicated for the new President was a quiet move to discard the present document (instituted by his predecessor) and return to the republic's original, democratic constitution...
...Atlantic. The O-8, the O-9, and the O10 belonged to a class of the smallest (480 tons), oldest (1918) Submarines in the Navy. Age wears submarines faster than any other class of naval vessels, and the eight O-boats would never have been recommissioned, after years of discard, unless World War II had made it absolutely necessary for the Navy to train new crews as fast as possible...
Recently, also, the French democratic tradition suffered perhaps its greatest purely symbolic defeat. Marshal Pétain kicked France's hallowed Bastille Day into discard, replaced it with a new national holiday for which he picked May Day. The former French labor festival also happens to be the Marshal's own Saint...
...tomorrow morning Vag will temporarily discard his reading period slothfulness and at 9 o'clock he will walk into New Lecture Hall, take off his hat, and hear Professor Roger Bigelow Merriman, God of the course for two decades, give his last lecture in History...
...Whiskey is one of the cheapest and best painkillers known to man." So reported Dr. Harold George Wolff of Cornell last week to the Association of American Physicians meeting at Atlantic City. Earlier doctors, he said, prescribed whiskey freely but were finally forced to discard it for "moral and ethical considerations...