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Word: cuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cracks at Harvard already, and failed to come alarmingly close either time, although they did cut down the gap by several lengths in last week's race. As for Columbia, it has only managed to register two lasts in as many starts this year, falling victim to Princeton and Yale once and Penn twice...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crew Faces Navy, Penn, Tech, Lions | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which has proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mammy! | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...couldn't pull off a deal like that in any other country. Americans are uniquely prone to isolate emotion from life, and so cut off it inevitably turns to cheap sentimentality. The treatment of Mothers is one indication of the general American attitude toward women; the plight of the wife ("the little woman") is well enough known and horrible. And so far she is Day-less. As for mothers, their main trouble is usually that they have too much to do in the early years and not enough later on. The plight of the American woman whose children...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mammy! | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...must have died instantly," Dodge said this afternoon in describing the rescue. "There was a deep cut over his left eye and the scalp was torn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schiller's Body Recovered from Deep Crevasse | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

...helped by the voterans' programs. Even so, to meet the level of costs it has been necessary for us to use some of our accumulated wartime surpluses in scholarship funds. These surpluses are now disappearing, and we must seek new sources of financial assistance if we are not to cut back substantially our numbers of Scholarship students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summary of Scholarship Report | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

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