Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the native States are legally wet, in the predominantly Moslem Northwest Frontier Province there is all but total prohibition. The Mohammedan religion bars alcohol, and its followers who want to lighten their immediate burdens take narcotics. In none of these places, however, are Europeans prevented from making, selling or buying liquor for their own consumption. For all Mr. Patel cares, the British can drink themselves to death with their chotapegs (half portions of Scotch whisky...
Trouble-shooter Davis could do nothing to stop the sickening fall of rubber from its 1925 high of $1.25 a pound to 2⅛? a pound in 1932, but he could do a little to lighten the effect of huge inventory losses on his company. He did it by slashing his inventory and accounts receivable (i. e., by selling part of his business) and the proceeds he applied to reducing the funded debt, thereby saving interest charges. While the deficit piled up and stockholders gave up, he wiped out $40,000,000 of that debt in three years. Meanwhile...
Coach Clark Shagginessy--"There is no remedy that I can suggest, save that we lighten our athletic schedule. If I were to turn out the strongest team possible, I'd take about the twelve best players and work with them and let the rest of them go. But when I came here, I was told that it was my job take every student who desired to came out for football and give him all the training possible. And I've tried to do that. After all, every student who plays his tuition is entitled to the same tutelage as every...
...Roskilde, near Copenhagen, the Danish Army planned to black out the town for three nights during antiaircraft maneuvers. Businessmen grumbled. Pacifists took direct action, bought up all the fireworks in town, planned to set them off and march in torchlight parades to "lighten the dark nights...
...longer can the average city look to tomorrow's influx of population to lighten its responsibility for financial obligations incurred today. Nor is there much immediate prospect of skyrocketing assessed valuations to make tax levies appear smaller and debt burdens less onerous. . . . Very few municipalities with overall, net, tax-supported debts in excess of 15% of full taxable value escaped more or less serious default in the depression period. Very few whose overall debts fell below 10% became conspicuously involved in default...