Word: lopping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Joseph Short angrily denounced an article by Daniels in Collier's which would do Harry Truman no good with Congress. In it, Daniels attributed to the President some recommendations for reforming Congress. Most notable: limiting tenure to twelve years. Daniels pointed out that such a limitation would lop off such Democratic pillars as Speaker Sam Rayburn, House Majority Leader John McCormack, Texas' Senator Tom Connally and Virginia's Harry Byrd...
Eliot has swamped most of its opponents by lop-sided scores. The most recent was a 26 to 7 drubbing of the Deacons. Earlier in the season, backfield stars like Riley Gilbert, Roger Pugh, and passer Charles Cabot led the Elephants to a 33 to 0 victory over Adams...
...three seasons as head football coach at Cornell, George (Lefty) James has compiled a distinguished record of 20 victories and seven losses. Two of the wins have been lop-sided triumphs over Harvard elevens and few in the crowd which will attend this afternoon's contest between the Big Red and Crimson at the stadium expect that James' dominance over local teams will come to a sudden halt...
...started to trim the small (19 men) editorial staff, and cut the Herald's eight-page editions to six and sometimes four pages. Month ago, Editor Parsons got a cable from Mrs. Reid to come home for a conference. There he learned that Weare had made another recommendation: lop off the editor's job-and Parsons' $19,500 salary-and combine the editor's functions with the general manager's. Last week Editor Parsons resigned, pocketed a $10,000 consolation prize and began to look around for another job. Walter Kerr, Herald Tribune foreign editor...
...read with interest your editorial (May 22) opposing construction of a new Varsity Club. In your fairness to the proposal, you cited only two advantages: "it would re-instituted the training table . . . and it would lop three blocks off the long walk back from Soldiers Field...