Word: curtailing
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...believe that this program will curtail the opportunities for our undergraduates to take part in athletics; the status of four minor sports will not be affected, and inter-house athletics will be fostered as before. The alternative is the hand-to-mouth policy of old days which must eventually lead any institution to have far too great concern with football gate receipts. The Director of Athletics is probably more fully aware than anyone of all the dangers inherent in an unbalanced budget, and we need have no fear that there will be any deviation from the course which has been...
...Deal had begun to grope for an AAA substitute and Mr. Hoover thought the time was opportune to steal a march on the New Deal by getting in a bit of constructive criticism. Said he: "Instead of trying to find a balance to Agriculture by paying the farmer to curtail a crop, we should endeavor to expand another crop which can be marketed or which would improve the fertility of the soil. We import vast quantities of vegetable oils, sugar and other commodities. . . . We need to replenish our soils with legumes and restore coverages. ... I believe we must be prepared...
...that we had to present a noncontentious budget and get it through quickly and ask the House of Commons -which is not a practice I ever propose to repeat - to curtail its discussions on supply by a great deal and give up one of its essential functions in order to allow the election to take place. Therefore. I have long since come to the conclusion that you must rule out the spring and summer months because of financial business. You must rule out August and September because of the holidays. You are left autumn, but in no circumstances must...
With little experience as an administrator, Dr. Gasser was uneasy about a job that may curtail the study of nerve physiology on which his scientific reputation stands and that entails the full management of the Rockefeller Institute and the supervision of its 651 employes, including two Nobel Prizewinners and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Before he would accept Dr. Flexner's offer, he went to St. Louis to ask advice of old friends at Washington University where he worked for 15 years. They soothed his qualms, advised him to accept. He returned to Dr. Flexner's office, accepted, went scooting...
...query, "If extra-curricular activity does interfere, which do you think it better to curtail, (activity or scholastic work)?" only 31 percent thought that studies should take the rap, while 69 percent felt that studies came first...