Word: crimp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...participants let it be known that Kibitzers would be more than welcome, and the contest will last only an hour and a half, not too serious a crimp in examination study schedules...
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson admitted last week that the wartime changes would put a great crimp in the liberal education of men. Yale's President Charles Seymour spoke for most U.S. college presidents when he stressed Yale's determination to carry on as a traditional university...
This rush of war work has put a crimp in Northeast's purely domestic operations. The line operates only a few Douglas transports, has canceled all but the most vital civilian service. But Sam Solomon is unworried-in war work his pilots and crews are getting flying experience which will be invaluable when the war is over and the scrap for worldwide air routes begins. Meanwhile Northeast prospers: earnings for the nine months ended Sept. 30 were roughly $125,000-almost as much as total operating revenues...
Putting a crimp in plans for extended weekends, Dean Hanford said yesterday that there would be no holidays, as has been the custom over past years, on the day of the Yale game, at New Haven...
...Angeles. Never before had so many of their workers failed to show up on the job-the plants' skilled men had been stampeded by the U.S. Government. A few headlines, such as HALT DEFERMENT OF DEFENSE WORKERS IN DRAFT, MARRIED MEN TO BE INDUCTED, had put a crimp in vital war production...