Word: paring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval treaty, General Araki hinted, should place the U. S., Britain and Japan on a basis of parity, instead of the present 5-5-3 ratio. Flaying Japanese Finance Minister Takahashi, who is des perately trying to pare down the Japanese Army & Navy estimates, War Minister...
...first time, a Second Freshman team will be organized, with a regular schedule of games with nearby preparatory schools and the Freshman elevens of other colleges. The approximately 200 candidates who annually turn out for Freshman football make such an unwieldy squad that it is necessary to pare the number to about 50 the first week. In the past the rest have gone immediately to the dormitory teams. This year those who really want to make a team will be kept on the Second squad, while those who are taking the sport to fulfill the physical education requirement will play...
...common among those who favor this "balance-the-budget" theory to point out that just as businesses and families pare down expenditures to the bone and beyond, so ought governments to adopt a similar course. And the heads of federal, state, and city departments have generally bowed to this show of logic. But this is an outworn and economically unsound argument. The time for the government to retrench and take stock is not in a depression, but in times of prosperity. In a period when there is considerably little money passing about, when individuals and private businesses are postponing their...
...will be bombarded by recommendations from all over the country, and it will be a truly Gargantuan task to choose five or six Junior Fellows out of the mass of material available. The Committee will have to place some reliance on course grades and college records in attempting to pare down the number at the outset, but the greatest care must be taken to avoid too much reliance on such a system of selection. Oral contacts are obviously the most satisfactory method to employ, but no one method can truly judge the intellectual capabilities of any man. In the ultimate...
...murder of Charlene Johnson by stabbing her in the leg artery with a penknife. Negro Joe Beasley was freed when he showed Judge Novatus L. Barker a broken fingernail. Playing the piano at a dance, Joe Beasley had broken the nail, taken out the penknife between dances to pare it. Pushed in the crowd. Charlene Johnson had bumped into the knife, stabbed herself...