Word: lopped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private office, picked up his telephone to inquire about his good friend Secretary of War Good, then on his way to the operating room at Walter Reed Hospital. The three visitors returned to the Treasury by the back way. That evening Secretary Mellon announced the President's plan to lop 1% from 1929 income and corporation taxes...
Having defeated Brother Bramwell's effort to depose her, Aunt Evangeline suddenly took the offensive. She led a movement to lop away Brother Bramwell's autocratic power, and make the office of generalissimo hereafter elective rather than dynastic. Invoking the memory of Father William, Brother Bramwell rejected all such proposals. Then he fell sick...
State budget had increased some 16 millions, reaching $232,641,701. He explained how the money was spent, for highways, education, hospitals, prisons, conservation, claims, public works. He pointed out that the Legislature, controlled by Republicans, had only been able to lop $25,000 from his Administration figures, and had tried to add on "unnecessary" appropriations of $219,000, which he had vetoed. He anticipated a political outcry against "extravagance" by promising to defend his fiscal policies and the $16,000,000 increase anywhere, any time...
...fact, considers that to kill is to cure, and advises that, since college is a "palpable waste of time", all general education should give place to small specialized groups in close relation with their professors. The "Nation" proves comparatively humane; to keep all "undesirables" from college it would simply lop off intercollegiate athletics...
...letters into a space meant for 14, a chance to edit copy, to rate the news value of stories; a chance to go downstairs and make up the next day's issue, to take the type in your hands and but in the forms, to lop off a bit here and another bit there so a column may be compressed into a half column space; a chance to grab with ink-stained fingers the first copy to come off the press and eagerly look for mistakes, mistakes which you are all too apt to find and which...