Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Others clamored for a completion of the tariff wool schedules first. Western Senators scowled at reduction of the corporation tax, beneficial chiefly to eastern industry. Senator Couzens of Michigan complained that the consumer, having already paid the 1929 tax to corporations, would not profit by that phase of the cut. It looked as if it would take the Senate days to do what the House did in hours...
...Arrive ten minutes before the hounds are scheduled to start. If the fixture is near you, hack to it so as to find your seat. But do not take a short-cut through likely coverts...
...mutinous army divisions were menacing the capital. China was another name for Anarchy. In the vast city of Shanghai, peopled by nearly two million Chinafolk, it was impossible to take a train or send a telegram to Nanking, Peiping or Hankow, "Chicago of China." Wires and rails had been cut by men with guns who might be described as soldiers, mutineers, revolutionaries or bandits as one pleased. They all looted indiscriminately. Chaos grew so complete that leading Shanghai newspapers described one report of the President's resignation as "received from a trustworthy source in Paris...
Three practice sessions in the Garden next week will start the actual work of the season: a half day's work on Tuesday and Thursday, and a full day's on Wednesday. Pratt hopes to be able to line up the squad sufficiently to have a cut before the Christmas vacation...
Late last night Professor Coolidge said in a statement to the CRIMSON that his resignation was prompted by the pressure of new responsibilities connected with the Lowell House post, and that he found it necessary to cut down on other activities. "My life is just too full, and something had to go", he concluded...