Word: lop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the point of view of future collecting, home-decorating, and traveling. None of the present courses, however adequate in their own special fields, leave the student with a rounded appreciation of Art. Either all four courses must be taken by the student, or else he must become lop-cornered...
...amended only once in five years. Impatient to let his citizens share in "the more abundant life of the Roosevelt New Deal," Governor Earle proposed to revamp the whole document at one clip. He wanted to up the State's borrowing power, shift taxes from real estate to incomes, lop off or consolidate antique political offices and divisions, lay the ground for social security legislation. First step was to get Pennsylvanians to say Yes to a Constitutional Convention in 1936. Last week after a hot campaign in which Republicans fought fiercely against revision, Pennsylvanians said...
March 1933-Heroic and invincible, planted foursquare on his platform and campaign pledge to cut the Federal Budget by 25%, President Roosevelt swept through a dazzled Congress the Economy Act of 1933, enabling him to lop an estimated $500,000,000 per year off Government expenditures. Most of this saving was obtained by separating veterans who had not been disabled in actual service from the pension rolls, by cutting all Federal salaries...
...their ten encounters, defeating M.I.T., Holy Cross, Milton, Worcester, Boston University, and Oxford School, losing to Tufts, Boston University in a second encounter, Dean Academy, and Exeter Academy. The Green five has played only two games, against Montpelier Seminary and Clark School, which they won by lop-sided scores...
...Central Committee has fulfilled its purpose well in securing a cross section of students for the Houses. Now that the lop-sided condition of 1932-33 has been virtually cleared up, the present procedure of the Central Committee is proving complicated and expensive; the time has come for a simpler and less fastidious system. The energy that is being spent by the present Committee and the House Master is far out of proportion to the value of the end which they are trying to accomplish...