Word: curtailer
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...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...
...projects or that every existing business will get credit. It does mean that capital will be advanced to those businesses which can show by a record of their past operations and an analysis of their current progress that they can earn enough every ninety days or six months to curtail their notes so that over a year or three or five years, as the case may be, the notes can be repaid...
...mail service has completely broken down. Formal orders by the President, that the army curtail in operations and confine flying to a few essential routes really means the Pencial disruption of nation wide schedules of delivery...