Word: axing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students for service in the armed forces will be in the case of participants in seasonal sports. Men on the football team will not be required to practice for the Harvard game by splitting rails, but as soon as the season is over they will come back to the axe...
...either are uncuttable because of endowment bequests or are assets too desirable to be reduced. People who leave money to Harvard usually tie it up for definite ends, such as museums and rare book libraries. These are luxuries, but the terms of the gifts preclude the use of the axe. Besides, although they are luxuries they are the element of the University which sets it apart from other institutions...
When a man murders his wife to get her money, the crime may be labelled 'social pathology'," Hooton remarked. "But if a man takes an axe and chops Iris wife and all of his children into bits, he is commonly adjudged to be crazy or mentally deficient." The same definitions might well be applied to national states as well, he suggests...
...sake of amateurism. There seems to be no reasonable objection from the undergraduate body to radioing the ball games on the large networks. Further-more, innumerable Alumni all over the country would like to tune in on those Harlow spinners and end sweeps. And so with the budget axe falling nearer the sports-lovers' heads, next fall's fans ask the responsible men or man to break the news...
...this could have been avoided with a little preparation. But the sloppiness did not end here. The cut-offs at the ends of records are abominably handled, coming often in the middle of a phrase (the effect is as though the soundtrack has been chopped off with an axe), while on at least three sides there is an entire half-inch of waste space at the beginning, during which the needle scrape-scrapes around, and the listener forgets what was happening at the end of the last side. All this without mentioning defects in the performance, such as Koussevitzky...