Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends of Prohibition were perturbed also by the language of Major Curran's report of his progress. Back of his board of directors is a membership of 750,000 citizens. "And behind that," he said, "stands the increasing determination of the American people to cut out of our Constitution the cancer that lodged there when the Eighteenth Amendment was enacted...
...stand on their constitutional rights and sue in court when the flood control work does them harm. A half-victory by the Coolidge men was the provision that for floodways the U. S. shall buy not actual acreage but "flowage rights" across the land where necessary. This provision cut untold sums from flood-control's ultimate cost, said the Coolidge men, who suspected lumber and railroad companies of plotting to sell their valley lands at exorbitant prices...
...which they called nebulium. This idea was exploded by Professor Ira Sprague Bowen, famed physicist colleague of Dr. Millikan. He found the lines are caused by the very familiar elements oxygen and nitrogen. They seemed unfamiliar because, in the rare atmosphere around the stars these elements have room to cut complicated capers, storing up energy for some time, then jumping actively and shooting off rays. In the dense atmosphere of the earth they are always being bumped by, or bumping, other atoms, cannot save their strength to go into a highly active state give very different lines when photographed...
Announcement was made last night that besides the six men who will face Williams the following men have been retained on the squad: S. R. Johnson '30, D. M. Proudfoot '29, J. B. Ward '30, and F. H. Soule '30. The cut is by no means final: any man who has been dropped can regain his standing by defeating a member of the squad in a 36 hole match...
...clock this afternoon, the New Hampshire ball team will engage the Harvard nine on Soldiers Field in an attempt to cut short the latter's winning streak...