Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When spring wheat fell below 75? a bu. last fortnight, tall, oratorical Governor William Langer of ever-radical North Dakota, taking advantage of a law passed by the last Legislature empowering him to curtail "an unwarranted drain upon the natural resources of the State," ordered an embargo on North Dakota wheat. Last week this embargo took effect. First effect was upon big wheat-carrying railways running through the State. The Soo, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul let out a concerted yelp of dismay...
...spectacular science, were, at least, a handful of clocks, or perhaps a gigantic hourglass. Thanks to a far-seeing director, no mechanical movement is in evidence. Even the visitors to the building are restricted in activity, and are content to plop their beer-saturated bodies into the chairs, and curtail the movement of their gum-chewing jaws...
...strength up to the full limit of the London Treaty, make its "second to none" boast a reality.) "To assemble the U. S. fleet for a period of not less than two months at least once a year." (That meant that Roosevelt economy would not, as widely feared, curtail the Navy's war games.) "To further the development of two main home bases on each coast." (That meant that, on the Atlantic, Norfolk and Narragansett Bay and, on the Pacific, Mare Island at San Francisco and Bremerton near Seattle would probably be developed as the major navy yards...
...common with other colleges, the Athletic Association during the past year has had increasing difficulty in keeping that plant out of the red. Beside the elimination of the "frills" which flourished in the years when money poured into the coffers of the H.A.A., resort has been had to curtailment of the number of trips allowed the various teams, and to moderate reductions in the size and salaries of the coaching staff. In making-up its budget for next year, the Athletic Association is faced with the necessity of making still further economies by either of two alternative measures...
...protest that has been made against the tremendous increase in the cost of maintaining educational institutions has resulted in a reduction and sometimes non-payment of teachers' salaries throughout the country. Under these circumstances, if every public agency and nearly every private agency has found it necessary to curtail educational costs through salary revisions downward, there is no method of logic by which one can justify immunity for even professors at Harvard University, sacred as is that institution...