Word: paring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rhinelander said that there would be a movement throughout most of the elementary courses in General Education to pare the reading lists to meet freshman reading speeds...
...office has been so busy opening envelopes and filing completed forms that we have not yet had a chance to accumulate general statistics on the Class of 1958," he said. The admissions office has until May 11 to pare the group down to the desired 1100 students. On that date acceptance notices will be mailed...
...understand the screenwriters' efforts to scrape the tarnish from poor Launcelot's soul. And it is clear that they had to pare down the number of characters wandering through the story to keep within the limits of the CinemaScope screen. But when only a lean-faced Mel Ferrer, a sullen Ava Gardner, and a Frank Merriwellish Robert Taylor remain, disappointment tends to creep in. All that keeps the audience from leaving their seats are the colorful sword-swinging battle scenes between regiments of Round Table rivals and the single-handed heroics of Robert Taylor's Launcelot...
Because official Washington felt that forecasts of excise tax cuts might cause a buyers' strike, Speaker Martin's statement was considered premature. Nonetheless, the Administration clearly expects Congress to pare $1 billion off the Eisenhower budget and then cut excise taxes a balancing billion along the line drawn by Martin...
...further pare government expenditures, the Chamber of Commerce wants to climinate all grants to the states for old age and public welfare assistance and unemployment compensation. Under the present system, federal aid is given the state program in proportion to the per capita wealth of the states, the poorer receiving more aid than the richer. Discontinuing federal support would probably have no serious effect on the richer states, but the poorer states would be forced either to give up their social insurance programs completely, or at least to curtail them drastically...