Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modern Language Department has been the object of much experimentation in its undergraduate work. The tutorial system was first used to its fullest extent in this field; language requirements have been adjusted along more flexible lines, and some sort of effort has been made to cut down the amount of elementary work necessary. Adapted as the courses in this field are to outside reading assignments and critical reports, the Reading Period found its most general acceptance among them, while the other group has for obvious reasons been more conservative in its adoption...
...preferably that night. But we failed to notice any patrons of the Plymouth writhing in their chairs. In the first act, a young boy remarks that he likes his women firm, and someone else makes a comment about the gypsy's "bust and hips". That no doubt will be cut by the censors, and except for a spot in the third act where the son of the house is seen emerging by the light of dawn from the b-droom of the gypsy, there is little indeed that ought to worry the Watch and Ward...
When the Glee Club, a few years ago, left the safe and easy road of college singing organizations, and ventured to cut its own way through a jungle of opposition, active and passive, the scoffers were many. The purpose of a glee club was to keep up the college spirit, by a hearty, full-throated chorus of football and Alma Mater songs, with a few compositions regarded as sufficiently light and gay to please the ears of a gathering of people not overly interested in music...
...flashy skaters like Frank Boucher, Ranger centre, or Bill Cook and his brother Bun, the wings, could stand being bumped around by checks like Siebert, Button, Smith. The Rangers were playing all their games away from home. In the second game their goalie's eye was cut open and Lester Patrick, manager and coach, a star defense man 20 years ago, put on the pads and got in goal himself. After this game (TIME, April 16), the president of the National Hockey league appointed a new goalie for the Rangers-Joe Miller, late of the Americans...
...method of forcing a balance between the manufacturing costs and selling costs of fabrics which New Bedford and neighboring Taunton, Mass., textile makers adopted last week was to reduce wages. The New Bedford Silk Mills cut pay by 25%, and at once 140 employes walked out. Twenty-seven cotton mills announced 10% pay cuts for the beginning of this past week and 2,571 mill hands immediately voted to go on strike. The three local newspapers are condemning both wage reductions and strike...