Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, on paper, looked like a definite improvement over the old. Not only had some much-thumbed old political jacks been thrown into the discard (see below); among the 17 Republicans and five Democrats newly elected there were many practiced legislators, some right-&-left bowers...
...Jesus," says Dr. Scott, ". . . religion was no mere shell, enclosing an ethic, which was the kernel. He thought of morality as growing out of religion, and existing for the sake of it. The idea that you may discard the religion of Jesus and still retain his pure morality is utterly mistaken, for without the religion you have nothing...
...first theological notice. Schweitzer's thesis: Jesus shared the Jewish Messianic expectation that the world was soon coming to an end, to be followed by a supernatural Kingdom of God. Since it did not, Schweitzer reasoned, Jesus must have been capable of error. Schweitzer advised liberal Protestantism to discard the infallible "Christ personality of dogma"-without discarding the Christ of the Sermon on the Mount, which he hailed as the charter of a great ethical faith...
...Progressives met in a frame hall at Portage, Wis., to disband the party, return to the G.O.P. Young Bob was facing another election-and he could win only as a Republican. There were still men who wanted to go defiantly on. Said Scandinavian-born Farmer Ole Lund: "When we discard a piece of machinery on the farm we think twice before we hitch on to it again." But there was no choice. The Democrats could offer no hope of victory. Quietly the delegates voted to join up with the Republicans, and went home...
Hurry, Hurry. Mielziner's greatest headache-and heartache-is the frantic haste with which he must fill his jobs. The scene designer has perhaps three days to work out his design, perhaps three weeks to make hundreds of sketches, find dozens of props, discard, replace, assemble, "hang" and light. "I like to brood," sighs Mielziner, "and there's no time for brooding"-only 100-hour work weeks in which "one minute you're creating magic, the next minute you find yourself serving as a practical plumber or making a four-ton set disappear...