Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With little experience as an administrator, Dr. Gasser was uneasy about a job that may curtail the study of nerve physiology on which his scientific reputation stands and that entails the full management of the Rockefeller Institute and the supervision of its 651 employes, including two Nobel Prizewinners and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Before he would accept Dr. Flexner's offer, he went to St. Louis to ask advice of old friends at Washington University where he worked for 15 years. They soothed his qualms, advised him to accept. He returned to Dr. Flexner's office, accepted, went scooting...
...query, "If extra-curricular activity does interfere, which do you think it better to curtail, (activity or scholastic work)?" only 31 percent thought that studies should take the rap, while 69 percent felt that studies came first...
...utmost each of its rights under international law. This plan, however, as the experiences of 1914-1917 demonstrated, leads almost inevitably to involvement, since in modern warfare economic factors are of such vital importance, the blockade is so deadly a weapon, that self-preservation forces belligerents to curtail neutral trading privileges. The other course, less glorious but more realistic, is to withdraw the protection of the government from those who engage in commerce with warring nations. The Nye-Clark resolutions would be a step towards the adoption of this attitude...
Washington, Feb. 5--Revolting Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee in a stormy session today slashed out whole sections of the Administration's $4,880,000,000 works bill in a successful battle to curtail President Roosevelt's power...
...Several years ago the University relieved itself of the financial responsibility of the physical education program by asking the athletic committee to pay for it from gate receipts. When gate receipts dwindle, non-revenue producing activities must be curtailed, but I sincerely hope we shall not be asked to discontinue or curtail our Freshman exercise program...