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Past practice and legal tradition relegated the act, which Congress passed at the behest of Anthony Comstock, one of the outstanding bluenoses of American history, to the scrap heap long ago.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
Listen to this article Nothing gets some Yankees fans excited quite like the addition of a reliever picked up off the scrap heap.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2024
Now, a company in the UK has come up with an ingenious way to help people from around the world get over their exes by sending them straight to the scrap heap.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2024
Baltimore got the two veterans off the relative scrap heap to serve as depth; the New York Yankees released Hicks amid his slow start to the season, and the New York Mets traded McCann to the Orioles this offseason for a low-level minor leaguer while eating most of the money left on his contract.
—Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 10 Sep. 2023
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
Listen to this article Nothing gets some Yankees fans excited quite like the addition of a reliever picked up off the scrap heap.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2024
Now, a company in the UK has come up with an ingenious way to help people from around the world get over their exes by sending them straight to the scrap heap.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2024
Baltimore got the two veterans off the relative scrap heap to serve as depth; the New York Yankees released Hicks amid his slow start to the season, and the New York Mets traded McCann to the Orioles this offseason for a low-level minor leaguer while eating most of the money left on his contract.
—Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 10 Sep. 2023
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“Scrap heap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrap%20heap. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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