Word: discards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past year, so crushing were his burdens while the State of New South Wales weltered in a series of defaults which the Dominion Treasury had to make good (TIME. April 6, et seq.). Last week young, buoyant Australia kicked Mr. Scullin, who now seems "old" at 55, into the discard. Triumphantly placed in power by a general election which gave his supporters 51 seats out of the Australian Parliament's 75 was "The Honest Man from Tasmania," Joseph Aloysius Lyons...
Said Dr. Whitman: "All these patients are entitled at least to a chance of relief. In favorable cases surgical treatment may entirely mask the effects of the disease. In worse cases it may enable the patient to discard apparatus. In the worst cases it can hold out the possibility of independent locomotion. . . . Only a very small number need expect to look, feel, or act like a cripple...
...Advocate was in general less variegatedly ambitious: it published stories, poems and book reviews. In their Christmas number, the present Advocate has, in some degree, retrogressed--but they have qualified and justified their retrogression. To discard Latinization for a sentence or so, they have produced the best collection of stories and poems, and the best editorials that have appeared in the last two years...
That the show was a failure was no fault of Bobby Clark & Paul McCullough, two droll fellows who make many spectators scream with laughter. Funny man Clark did his best to discard Mr. Arno's inane libretto, inject into the proceedings his own particular brand of in sanity. The simple burlesque business that Mr. Clark knows best consists chiefly in manhandling a cigar, shooting people with a trick cane equipped with a rubber-tube to blow smoke through, ogling all pretty girls through spectacles painted on his face, ranging rapidly about the stage at a half-crouch. All this...
...Life and other magazines, newspapers and a great army of middling golfers: their fight to get the U. S. Golf Association to discard the bigger, lighter ball. New specifications, announced this week for adoption next April: 1.68 in. diameter (as at present), 1.62 oz. (the old official weight, as against 1.55 oz. this year...