Word: curtailer
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...Winter curtail a year without fruitions...
Last week they dropped again -to a lean six pages -with a starveling four in prospect. Thinnest British paper was the Communist Daily Worker, reduced to a single sheet. Not censorship but dwindling cash and paper stocks forced the Daily Worker to curtail. Hard-hitting Prime Minister Winston Churchill took no chance of alienating Comrade Stalin by cracking down on the Daily Worker. By way of tactful acknowledgment, Moscow papers printed 2,000 words from Churchill's speech on the retreat of the B. E. F. from Flanders...
...inventory pressure prices begin to follow the general downtrend. Evidence of increasing coal inventories in mining centres: freight loadings of coal fell, in spite of increased production, in spite of the freezing of the Ohio around Pittsburgh which prevents shipment by river. Further declines in steel & other production will curtail coal demand...
...last Saturday in a 3 to 1 win over Brown. Then to top that off, they beat the Varsity 5 to 3 in their last scrimmage. The only disheartening feature is the fact that Jack Calhoun, the captain, and Bill Mayer are both troubled with leg injuries which may curtail their playing efficiency...
...must there be an investigation of rights and liberties guaranteed by three hundred years of liberal traditions? . . . We fear that any committee to 'explore' the basis of Harvard's policy will only discover new technicalities with which to curtail our liberties...