Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industrial representatives and job opportunities which at present languish in the Dean's Office, and an experienced secretary, working this year in the NYA office. This drastic amputation, which saved the University approximately $18,000 a year, was undertaken "for budgetary reasons" soon after the announcement of a 10% slash in the funds for all departments...
South of Shreveport, where Spanish moss droops from the live oaks and watercourses slash the marshy Louisiana land like knife-cuts in a pan of fudge, 340,000 soldiers of the Army met last week in the greatest sham battle in U.S. history. It was also the most decisive...
Interest in the long-debated question was revived last spring when the Student Council approved a petition signed by 1052 undergraduates, requesting that the broadcasts be instituted so as to replace at least in part the loss sustained by the 10 per cent slash in the athletic budget...
...board feet a year. The power saw not only brings the tree down, it also does the bucker's work, slicing up timber like so much sausage. Only human timber cutters needed for mechanized logging are toppers (who knock the tops off the trees) and limbers (who slash the limbs away...
...view of the recent athletic budget slash, here's a note for Bill Bingham's book. For from stopped when their bus developed pump trouble in the vicinity of Danvers on their way to Exeter Saturday afternoon, the Freshman baseball squad threw duffle bags into Coach Samborski's car and took up their stand along the Newburyport Turnpike in groups to two or three...