Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take a fixed position at present. Such delineation of public secondary school attitude should be not merely definitive, but suggestive in form. Foremost within it should be a statement of what further advance in specific fields of study the secondary school would be prepared to exchange for a cut in the over-wide requirements of college entrance under the credit system. In such a document education in general, as well as college committees on admission, would possess a thumb-rule for measuring the chasm's span...
...President signed the bill appropriating $89,820,000 to run the Departments of State, Labor and Justice. The Administration's Navy-building program appeared blocked, so the President agreed to cut down on it if Congress would at least authorize building 25 cruisers (see p. 9). Fresh warnings emanated from the White House on tax-cutting, tariff-tampering, flood control, shipping policy, etc., etc. Congress had sat long and done little. Should it become extravagant to make up for lost time, vetoes might ensue...
...part of the testimony of Mr. McCray in the criminal trial of Governor Ed Jackson in Indianapolis last week. The prosecution by the State was in the hands of able William H. Remy (TIME, Feb. 20), whom Mr. McCray had appointed in 1923. It looked like a clear-cut bribe conspiracy, out of which it would be difficult for Governor Jackson to squirm. But he did get out of it, easily, quietly. His lawyers pointed out that, under Indiana's statute of limitations, no man can be indicted for a bribery crime more than two years after...
...with the woman whose husband he was defending on the charge of murder, only to find both man and wife members of a harsh crowd of criminals. Eventually he escapes from his dilemma by sending the wife to jail for five years and planning to have the sentence quickly cut down. Such proceedings call for no small amount of insight and ingenuity to make them credible. A good deal has been supplied, but not enough. The play works itself up to a pitch of considerable excitement and then subsides, fizzling feebly. Robert Ames, who sometimes acts in the movies, availed...
...taken in 1901. Today Mr. Gillette has prospered so greatly that he owns a California estate where cattle and oranges are bred and grown "for fun." He was pleased last week by the value of one hundred cents set on Gillette patents. The chief effects are two: 1) to cut down taxes on the declared "worth" of the patents; 2) to prove that the Gillette company has no need to bolster its assets-column with the figure...