Word: lopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final of the three-day eliminations (in which the field was cut from 196 to 96) was the most exciting-and proved out a clear-cut winner: Eddie, a lop-eared black, white and tan hound owned by Frank Jacobs, an oil-rich Cherokee Indian from Oklahoma City...
...committee would lop off a student's time, particularly if he be well-prepared before he came. His school-college life it would make only seven hours long. Why not instead make Yale a place where there is rich enough offering for everyone, making it worth-while to spend four years here no matter how bright or well-prepared the student be? Education is more than a matter of course. It is also a matter of time...
...Government files. Result: for the first time in federal history, the Government two months ago began throwing away old files faster than it filled new ones. Such space saving has enabled Mansure to cut the Government's leased office and warehouse space 10%, and he expects to lop off another 7% before next July. A by-Droduct of the housecleaning is that GSA last year bought 96,000 file cabinets at $60 apiece. This year it will need only 8,000 new ones...
...faced the alternatives of absorbing heavy deficits or buying football teams--a choice dictated first by the fact that Harvard's huge athletic plant can be maintained only if oiled by gate receipts (otherwise its cost cuts too deeply into the College's more important functions), and second, that lop-sided games all but wipe out those receipts...
...joined the ranks of states offering substantial aid to medical students. Up to 14 students may now borrow up to $1,500 apiece from the state in each school year. For every year they practice in a rural area or small town (pop. 5,000 or less), Georgia will lop $1,000 off their loan...