Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of Biology concentrators has been steadily increasing. Biology D, the popular elementary course, especially has been growing, and the custom has been to increase the number of sections rather than their size to take care of the new students. This policy must be abandoned because of the budget slash...
...Teacher's Union points out in its report that the course the University intends to pursue means a drastic slash in the teaching facilities available to the student body. Stating that "many teaching follows and assistants would have to be dismissed" the report asserts that "such a procedure would evidently threaten the whole tutorial system...
Pond's contract, at $8,000 per annum, was not due to expire until next year, and some settlement will have to be made. Nelson is understood to have agreed to a salary of $5,000, right in line with Yale's recent decision to slash the athletic budget wherever possible. Yale's grid gate receipts were $100,000 below expectations this fall, making it necessary for Ogden Miller to tighten the Blue athletic belt without giving up big-time football...
Borough officials all over London were working 16 hours daily to ease the plight of bombed-out people. But until the two new Coordinators should have time to use their dictatorial powers and slash red tape it was impossible for an evacuee to draw dole money, get railway fare for a destination in the country, secure transfer of ration cards, have children shifted from one school to another or obtain new billeting without standing in line for hours, or even days, at various offices. In one London area an official took some homeless children to a public bath, spent half...
Through the sandy, slash-pine country of southwestern Georgia last week rolled a brand-new U. S. Army truck and trailer. At crossroads, along the main streets of dusty little towns, its five-man crew went to work. Their job was to get recruits. Atop the trailer a loudspeaker barked a persuasive sales talk. Inside there were movies of Army life, three desks for interviewing applicants. It was the first of 18 rolling recruiting stations designed by the Army for its nine Corps areas...