Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first cut in the Freshman football manager competition was announced Saturday. The men retained after competing two weeks are as follows: R. C. Clement, J. R. Collins, Samuel Davis Jr., A. G. Delany Jr., Byron Elting, B. L. Mason Jr., J. W. de Milhau, B. W. Newbury, L. F. Perry, W. T. Platt, D. W. Rainbolt, R. G. Snider, P. P. Swett, H. L. Wheeler, and P. M. Whitman...
Amid the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the emergence of Czechoslovakia, the Bat'a firm weathered strenuous post-War depression and came at last into deadly cutthroat competition with the old hand-shoemaker class. One day Shoeman Bat'a cut his prices 50%. Soon hunger-haunted shoemakers paraded through Prague, displaying placards: Bat'a Shoes are Paper Shoes! Shoemaker mobs became ugly...
...Request. Bill Abbott (Elliott Nugent) is a tanktown newsman summering in Manhattan for business reasons. Claudia Wynn (Verree Teasdale), a blandishing literary agent, wants to cut capers with him at Bar Harbor. Just then Mrs. Abbott (Norma Lee) comes bringing her fetching naïveté from the plains and salvages her husband in two acts of dubious psychology. But if the psychology is brittle, Mr. Nugent's comic gaucherie is quite successful. He elicits considerable amusement despite a trite plot and an uneven script. Furthermore, Miss Teasdale is as lush a blonde as one is likely...
Last summer, it created the International Envelope Co. and proceeded to figure on a bid. It cut close to $5,000.000 from the existing contract price. Middle West Supply, guessing shrewdly what was in store, also cut deeply, but not enough. International Envelope, with a bid of $15,300,000, thought it had won the guessing contest, since its bid was some half million dollars under its rival...
...dress differently here than we do, not that New College is especially fashionable, but everyone there wears a well cut coat and flannel slacks; here the most prominent men make no effort to present a smart appearance...