Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first 26 patients who got the treatment were relieved of pain; X rays showed that their ulcers had healed. Most were able to discard their pappy ulcer diets and between-meal snacks, but they must take banthine regularly; it is a palliative rather than a cure...
Before making its evenhanded report, the board had taken a sweeping view of the whole U.S. economy. It came down from the mount with a warning to both management and labor. It warned industry that it had no right to use up and then discard the human components of its structure. It warned the nation's steelmakers that excessive profits from production should be equitably shared through lower prices. At the same time, it sounded an implicit warning to labor that benefits cannot be won at the expense of industry's good health. In other words, the board...
...girls are all experienced rowers. In 1945 the aspiring mates rowed for gym credit at the Weld Boat Club, where they used singles, fours, and standard eight-man shells. Harvard took back its facilities at the end of the war, however, and the girls were forced to discard their chamois pants...
...readers were hired to weed out the hopeless entries. Into the rejects went a manuscript titled Jalna, written by a Canadian woman named Mazo de la Roche. Its handsome binding caught the eye of one of the Atlantic's regular editors. He picked the manuscript out of the discard, glanced at it and did not stop reading until he had finished it. Jalna won the contest's $10,000 first prize...
...poll will be drawn up by the Council's Student Welfare Committee in consultation with Social Relations department poll experts and with representatives of Bender and vice-President Reynolds. The survey may discard traditional "yes" and "no" methods and instead sample undergraduate sentiment by means of personal interviews...