Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University is considering the rental of Harvard Stadium to a newly-formed professional football team to house its first two seasons, in 1960 and 1961. Leasing the playing field could prove attractive financially, especially since the Department of Athletics has been forced to curtail monetary support of several minor sports. Conceivably the HAA could receive enough from the rental to put minor athletic teams back on a University supported basis, as they should...
...Band has its troubles, make no doubt about it. Section 35 is too small; the Dean's Office has its complaints; there aren't enough tubas to go around; and chronic financial troubles curtail more ambitious projects. Each year the Band swears it can never finish the football season, but it unfailingly does...
...examined by her own physician, Lord Evans. Now it could be told that back in July Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker had been let in on the secret (as had Ike and Mamie), but that it was the Queen alone who had decided not to curtail her tour except for those two days at Whitehorse in the Yukon. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana had also been told, early because, as the palace announced last week, the Queen's fall tour of Ghana, Sierra Leone and Gambia would have to be canceled...
...Journal (optimistically numbered "Vol. I, No. I) is mimeographed with a printed green cover, and its contributions--edited by Dan Frost '60--range over discussions in sociology, history, and economics. Ford Grant funds provided the wherewithall for production, an allotment which might curtail the flow of Beaujolais, but seems eminently worthwhile...
Victor Hugo's novel went on the Index in 1864 under pressure from Napoleon III, who hoped to curtail the popularity of a book in which revolutionaries were honest and noble. Said one Vatican spokesman: "It occurred to us that, with doctrinally objectionable passages annotated, this essentially Christian book might do some good." The annotations appear in the form of footnotes. Thus Hugo, in chapter four, describes the bishop's doctrine: "Err, yield to temptation, sin, but be just!" Says a footnote: "A very easy and peaceable moral thesis which had nothing in common with Catholic doctrine...