Word: axing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall exodus played a large part in decreasing the size of the upperclass half of the college. Of the 3364 men registered by yesterday, a large majority were Freshmen and Sophomores, on whom the axe of the 20th birthday had not fallen...
Called "The Professor off the Platform," this series of broadcasts is designed to give students a chance to argue with professors, and, Network officials say, "even to grind their favorite axe." Future programs will bring only in the social science course, but before the mike faculty members not also in most of the popular neids of study in the catologue...
Congress, caught in an election year with a paucity of real issues, is beginning to wield the economy axe on those agencies which it considers nonessential to the war effort. Included in that category are the NYA and CCC. Senator McKellar's Committee on Education and Labor is now considering a bill which abolishes the two and saves about $310,000,000. Despite strong Administration pressure to kill the bill, there is a very good chance that it will be passed by a Congress anxious to "get something done...
...papers are reporting that Ed Leader, whose crews have lost to Harvard for five straight years, may be the next to feel the Miller axe. Leader, who produced sensational crews in years past, has had eights in recent seasons that, although setting record times, have been beaten. Whether any more contracts will fall is doubtful, but enough have been let go to enable the papers to call the action "the most extensive house cleaning in the history of any major school...
...Cleft Ma with the Meat Axe?", an original skit written and executed by the Grays Hall Boys, will be one of the highlights of the program, the show includes a number of original song hits by Oliver Filley...