Word: curtailing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hospitals, the Dental School, the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory, and the Angell Animal Hospital are all now in active operation, clustered about the School, and the Lying-In Hospital has bought land and is about to build. These have gravitated to the School as a centre, but practically do not curtail the mutual usefulness of the Medical School and the older and more remote Massachusetts General, the City, and Women's Hospitals, the Dispensary, and the Eye and Ear Infirmary...
...business for the first four months of 1916 is in striking contrast to that prevailing this time last year. There are spots where much caution and conservatism yet remain, and the influence of high prices for the future further accentuates this caution because dealers feel that high prices will curtail buying by the consumer. There are other sections where the apprehension caused by the war still hangs on. Broadly speaking, it may be said that the spirit of optimism and hopefulness prevails to a degree that has not been apparent for nearly a decade and the general expectation...
Publication of a series of recommendations by the faculty committee on student affairs designed to curtail athletic schedules and expenses, has created a sensation at Cornell. The student body is highly enthusiastic over the success of the football team and objects strenuously to such recommendations as the abolishing of the pre-Thanksgiving trip to Atlantic City. Plans have already been made to call the attention of alumni bodies all over the country to the proposed program...
...would put a premium on preparedness, for when war broke out the unprepared munitions abroad, would be in a hopeless condition against its neighbor armed to the teeth. If we want to reduce excessive armaments, and the spirit of militarism that goes with them, we must seek to curtail the advantage of preparedness, and that is precisely what is done by securing...
...reached them. They arrived in New Zealand on August 13, in the early stages of the war. In spite of the depressing influence of the war, the plan for holding scientific meetings in Wellington and Christ Church was not wholly abandoned, but it was thought best to curtail or abandon altogether most of the social functions which had been included in the program...