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Word: slash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good deal of the Medical School's future will depends upon the outcome of the dean's drive. The School would be very reluctant to slash down its grand research show, but it might come to that. You just can't keep paying out more than you take in and still have everything...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

First Turn. Capot, stung by a slash from Jockey Ted Atkinson's whip, gave everything he had from the break. The strategy was obvious.: stay with Coaltown, and make him give up. Atkinson kept shaking the reins and yelling at his mount. Alongside him, Jockey Steve Brooks did his best to pump a little extra speed from Coaltown. Like a runaway team, the two horses thundered past the grandstand and into the first turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horse of the Year | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...students fees, and today across the country these are at their peak. However, the higher rates aren't having their full effect in narrowing the cost-income gap because enrollments are falling. In Harvard's case the enrollment dip simply reflects the University's decision two years ago to slash war-swollen figures. Many other colleges, however, would like to continue with a bigger students body but can't because fewer and fewer men today have enough money to pay the expensive bill...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: U. S. Higher Education Faces Crisis | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Radcliffe's Idler players will slash ticket prices for their forthcoming production of Jean Paul Sartre's "No Exit" December 2 and 3. The move will start a new Idler policy of lower rates to combat the competition from the professional Brattle Theater group, club chairman Marty Nichols '50 announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Formulates Price Cut Policy | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...prices would not be anywhere near that low, and some would not change at all. Scotch distillers, who were already selling as much whiskey to the U.S. as they could make (3,000,000 cases a year), promptly upped their export prices 30% to cancel out the entire slash in the pound. Many another British maker of goods with a steady U.S. demand upped his prices anywhere from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN EXCHANGE: Bargain Sale | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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