Word: axing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of the smaller, more flexible funds made bigger overall profits. A small ($2,000,000) company, Axe-Houghton Fund "B," run by a husband & wife team, Mr. & Mrs. Emerson Axe of Tarrytown, N.Y., led all other stock funds with a total value of $30,638 for the original...
...psychologists did not attempt to cure the Faculty, however, and none of the Clinic's patients hit the headlines with axe murders. In fact, the new project's combination of therapy, teaching, and research turned out to be a very good one. The students made willing and interested guinea pigs, and the patients--sent to the Clinic by other agencies; the Clinic takes none directly--got the benefit of the staff's newest researches. The Clinic has built up a considerable reputation for its work, which ranged from research in hypnotism to experiments in the psychology of jokes. Since...
...outrageous Child who stole the axe of power...
Other books of verse by older writers: Robinson Jeffers' crabbed The Double Axe, which most critics resented for its arrogant, unyielding isolationism; Paterson, Book II, a homey description of small-city life by William Carlos Williams, a New Jersey doctor who versifies between paying patients; Mark Van Doren's pleasant New Poems...
...same time. This would mean drastic budget outs. A large majority of the budget now provides for national defense, foreign aid, and veterans' benefits. Since a combination of these items will continue to take up an immense proportion of the budget, Mr. Dewey would have to apply the axe to other federal operations. In this "economizing," he undoubtedy would be under great pressure from the Old Guard of the Republican Party such men as Representatives Hallock, Taber, and Martin. Just as housing and education have suffered in New York, in the nation the result would be the undermining, and possibly...