Word: wastebasket
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...from the curriculum or at least made an elective. This plea the Faculty decisively rejected. President Sidney E. Mezes sat down and wrote an announcement of his colleagues' decision. One Felix S. Cohen, editor of the undergraduate paper, The Campus, threw the President's announcement into the wastebasket and refused even to mention in his publication the result of the Faculty vote...
Life had printed 20,000 copies of its weekly issue when news of Mr. Bryan's death was received last week. An editorial conference was called and the 20,000 copies were cast into the metaphorical wastebasket. All jokes and cartoons at Mr. Bryan's expense were removed from the press and replaced by other material. Then printing recommenced. It must have been costly...