Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant has allocated $5000 from University funds to fight the menace of forest fires in Petersham, site of the Harvard Forest, and to curtail them if they develop. This offer has been given to Patrick J. Moynihan, chairman of the Massachusetts emergency committee, by Ward Shepard '10, Director of the Forest and head of the special committee to guard against forest fires...
...home last week, Japan pulled her belt in another notch, prepared for further strain., Additional sections of the National Mobilization act, which places the nation on war footing, were invoked, to ration war essentials, curtail imports except war materials, control commodity prices. New War Minister Seishiro Itagaki gloomily admitted: "The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his lifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue. Consequently, it is necessary that the Japanese resolve to continue fighting at least ten years." The Imperial Council will meet soon for the sixth...
...Services has had, like the big studios, to curtail its production schedule. Work on a film was done (for the Fatigue Laboratory) to be shown this summer at the International Congress of Physiologists at Geneva...
...suggesting revision of U. S. anti-trust laws. Anxiously awaited by Business ever since, the business monopoly message from the nation's greatest governmental monopolist finally appeared last week. A detailed request for Congressional investigation of the whole subject of monopoly as a preliminary to future legislation to curtail it, it was chiefly noteworthy for a tone as mild as Messrs. Ickes & Jackson had been bitter...
...economic desperation the University has been pushed into the corner where sacrifice of one thing is necessary to save another. The value of the section is being questioned, but to destroy or curtail the number of sections contradicts the policy of individualized education and reverses the trend away from the impersonal lecture system. Excluding tutors and the extra-curricular counselor, the Freshman finds in the section his only chance for direct contact with the teacher, and, considering that the secondary school technique still engulfs him, he depends heavily upon such instruction his first year. English A exemplifies the large Freshman...