Word: slashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vastly Far Western modes of living, eating, fun-making differed from those of the rest of the U. S. When he bought Sunset (largely for its established name) in 1928, he determined to publish a magazine capitalizing on the Far West's insularity. His first move was to slash the price from 25? to 10? a copy. Second was to junk all purely literary features. He then divided the magazine into four general departments: Western Gardening, Western Homes, Western Foods (a Sunset All-Western Thanksgiving dinner included chilled papaya nectar, tortilla chips, spiced loquats and steamed persimmon pudding...
...Shansi Province last week, almost 300 miles north of Hankow, Communist guerrillas, fighting far behind Japanese front lines, continued to slash communication lines, ambush food and reinforcement convoys. From Hankow Japanese forces fanned out in a wide circle 200 miles in circumference, feeling for stray Chinese bands...
...amazing surgical dexterity spread his name all over the world, and lesser men seated in the operating theatre would gasp in admiration as Dr. Kelly, a scalpel in each hand, would boldly slash left & right through a patient's muscular abdominal wall. Dr. Cullen often tells the story of their first meeting, in Toronto's General Hospital in 1891. Young Tom Cullen was the intern assigned to handle the great Dr. Kelly's instruments. As Dr. Kelly grasped his scalpels Dr. Cullen turned round to thread a needle. When he looked back in a few seconds...
...eight yard off-tackle slash at the crucial moment, together with the help from heaven that all good Deacons have a right to expect, won the all important Lowell game for Kirkland, 7-0, yesterday afternoon, thus brushing aside the Deacons' most formidable opponent for the House grid title. In the other Soldiers Field encounter, a favored Adams eleven was cut down by last place Leverett...
...just before the 137 Class I railroads of the U. S. had rolled up a $181,000,000 net deficit for the first half of 1938, they moved to slash their greatest single operating cost. Notification was sent to railway unions that the roads would cut wages 15% effective July 1. Under the Railway Labor Act of 1926, preliminary horse trading thereupon began. Unions and management sat down together in Chicago, soon came to loggerheads. This automatically passed their dispute to the three-man National Mediation Board...