Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class matter. On the advertising sections of their magazines, for example, publishers would save from .25? to 2? per pound, according to zone, when they mail their publications out to subscribers. On postcards, which are used as much for placing orders as for "dropping a line," the rate was cut in half, back to one cent. Also, mail-order men would acquire the privilege of issuing C. O. D. return mail-cards and envelopes upon which the U. S. collects only when they are used; less wasteful-and more enticing-than the "use-the-enclosed-stamped-envelope" system...
...first success was in the Seven Days' battle. He stopped McClellan's advance at Mechanicsville, then cut Federal communication with the White House by cleverly passing his troops around to "Stonewall" Jackson's aid. Again the Union forces advanced, now under Pope. The bold strategy of ordering Jackson around Pope's wing to descend on his rear, and the lucky swelling of the Rappahannock River, combined to crush the invaders...
...which it is accustomed. Therefore the cultures in the wells ate up all the cholera organisms, purifying the drinking water; the cultures administered by mouth destroyed all the cholera germs in the intestines, healing the sick. Even in grave cases where the patients were already moribund the mortality was cut down phenomenally. Sixty-two per cent of the cases that were not treated died, whereas only 8 per cent of the treated cases succumbed...
...Canadian night-trains that stop at many junctions, on edge after the four hard games they had just played with only one day's rest between each game, the Rangers skated into the Montreal Forum feeling that it would be hard for them to get going. They were cut up and gashed-Johnson with the lobe of his nose torn through by a skate-point, Bun Cook with a charley-horse, Frank Boucher with a stitch over his eye. They were tired also from the strain of playing before the hostile and unsportsmanlike crowd in Boston which threw garbage...
...three, to the deserted castle, where the jealous lover imprisoned his love and her betrothed. Fugitive, he roams the ends of the earth year after year, tormented by fear and remorse, until at last his cycle of self-recrimination brings him again to the silent castle and the "faces cut by the moon to a sternness of stone." The punishment that awaits him has been molded of modern psychoanalysis, but cast in fairy tale...