Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cutting. After weeks of work, the Ways & Means Committee reported a Revenue Act of 1928 designed to cut U. S. citizens' taxes by $232,735,000 net. Secretary Mellon had recommended a cut of only 225 millions. Democrats and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce had agitated for a cut of 400 millions or more. The House settled itself to scrutinize the bill, to debate its features...
After his release, which had cut six years from his ten-year term, the old man went back to his young wife. Soon they separated; Captain van Schaick, a thin, rickety man, his face always lighted with a tardy and now unnecessary diligence, went about from place to place...
...incubus of a huge navy. Such advances as those of Lord Bridgman, calculated as an antidote to the bad taste of the international deadlock at Geneva, are ignored. Although the scope of resultant feeling is not determinable at present, it is already clear that Great Britain has given the cut direct to her cruisers, while the United States has given it to Great Britain...
Next year the number of Student Advisers, which totalled 70 this autumn, may be cut into less than half with 25 advisers reporting at Cambridge on the day that the Freshmen register, the "welcome committee" in each Freshman dormitory, holding office hours from 12 to 2 o'clock for a week, and eating in the Freshman dining halls, will function as it did this year. A large number of Freshman made use of the advisers in the Common Rooms last September, and the Committee feels that this feature of the system is worth retaining...
...final cut, Coach Joseph Stubbs '20 has retained 17 men to face the schedule ahead of the Crimson team. The list of linemen includes: Captain J. P. Chase '28, N. S. Clifford '29, J. P. Davis '30, W. L. Elkins '29, F. R. G. Giddens '30, G. C. Holbrook '30, C. B. Lakin '30, Arthur Mills '29, A. W. Richardson '28, John Tudor '29, and W. D. Wetmore '30. The defense men are: A. S. Bigelow '29, H. W. Bigelow 29, Willard Howard ocC., W. G. Saltonstall '28, and Joseph Morrill '28, and H. H. Newell '29, goal guards...