Word: curtailing
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...Council under the League Covenant for bringing swift aid to an attacked state. 3) Inspection of the report of the Council Committee on the vexed question of whether other nations than Germany should be admitted to the Council at the September session. 4) Debate upon a proposal to curtail the supervision now exercised by the League over Hungarian state finance. 5) Consideration of a motion by Sir Austen Chamberlain requesting modifications in the established procedure of the Council in dealing with petitions from racial minorities...
...chief reason for the decision of the University authorities to curtail the schedule this year are the commencement of a new regime in charge of baseball at Harvard, and the fact that the team has been severely handicapped in its early games this year by lack of practice before the trip. While these southern teams have sometimes played as many as ten games before they meet Harvard, the University team has seldom been fortunate enough to have been cut of doors for more than a week or ten days. This has made it advisable that the week in southern territory...
...mean nothing to a team that is gambling on a pass to make a long gain when behind in a light game. The committee realized that it would be impossible to check these last minute passes without making the penalty too severe. The new rule was merely made to curtail slightly what we consider to be a slight tendency at present for the passing game to outbalance the running game. The penalty of five yards was the slightest curb that we could impose...
...Washington, Secretary Kellogg was busy drafting a new note, to form part of the now formidable mass of secret correspondence which has recently been exchanged between the Coolidge and Calles administrations, respecting the provisions of the Mexican constitution which seriously curtail the activities of foreigners in Mexico with respect to religion, land tenure and oil concessions...
...statement made by Mr. Connolly yesterday, references were made to a vigorous effort now being exerted by the Yard police to curtail the canvassing of college dormitories by bootleggers...