Word: curtail
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...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...
...depressing case of their inability to adapt themselves to the year 1959. American-made equipment for teaching science has long been almost unbelievably expensive. Schools which are neither rich, nor equipped with ingenious teachers who can hand-build teaching equipment, are frequently forced by the costs to curtail some of their science teaching, or to do it with inadequate demonstrations...
...Band has been forced to curtail considerably its planned Southern tour because of financial reasons. The 55-man group will play only at the Harvard Club of New Jersey, in Newark, Monday night, March 30, and at the Washington, D.C., Club the following night...