Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes the disappointing order from the H.A.A. to cancel all plans for inter-House hockey. No reason was given other than financial and that one is felt to be an unconvincing excuse. For the past few years the H.A.A. has had to cut down on its athletic equipment and curtail its policy of "athletics for all." It has received the full support of a student body which realizes the vicissitudes of all athletic establishments. But when the H.A.A, refuses to spend a few hundred dollars to furnish facilities for winter sports for more than two hundred men, the limits...
...very definite molecular arrangement" which cured cancer. He refused to describe the stuff. Doctors branded him a quack. People whom he claimed to have cured, doctors argued, either never had cancer or, as occasionally happens, recovered spontaneously. Dr. Koch argued that his critics were hostile because his chemical would curtail their profitable cancer business. He proceeded to establish a reputation among laymen, one of whom was Mr. Anderson, onetime railroader. Wartime civilian recruiter for the Army, onetime propagandizer for the Veterans' Bureau, onetime anti-Prohibition crusader...
...stand up for it and try to pretend it was not. But the reason that it was not as good as the Freshman season when the latter was under Casey's control, lies absolutely outside of the fact that the Association has had to meet the depression and curtail its budget. I imagine this is what the writers mean when they refer to the actions of "an athletic administration with absolute authority over finances and publicity." Who should have this authority except an organization in contact not only with the outside world but the sports themselves? Should the coaches direct...
...price of ordinary meat-on-the-hoof has gained little. Government purchases of relief cattle may run as high as 12,000,000 head of livestock (including sheep and angora goats), more than one-half of which will be slaughtered. Such depletion of breeding stock will curtail U. S. meat production for years to come and prices of all meat will eventually rise...
...stockmarket, healthier than playing cards, less brutal than bearbaiting, more spectacular than roulette. Largely because of these advantages, horse racing has long seemed a particularly pernicious sport to those who consider all gambling immoral. At the turn of the Century there started a wave of earnest reform to curtail gambling by putting a stop to racetrack betting. Typical was the history of the reform in New York, where there has generally been more horse racing than anywhere else...