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Word: limit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bogotá, Ospina last week banned all public meetings from April 8 to 18. That took care of the first anniversary of the assassination of Liberal Leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (TIME, April 19), an occasion which some Liberals had planned to exploit to its riotous limit. Then Ospina summoned the bosses of both major parties to see what could be done about the backwoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Peace Posses | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...group felt that the bill would limit freedom of speech, and as such would violate the Constitution, Melville B. Nimmer 2L, president of the local chapter of the Lawyer's Guild stated. The "anti-atheism" clause could prevent the teaching of certain concepts in fields such as anthropology and philosophy, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Groups Urge Fight Against Anti-Red Bill | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...height of the debate, Lord Merriman posed this possible situation: under the pending plan, doctors are prepared to limit the number of inseminations from one donor at one time to 100. But "what is going to happen to the next generation" twenty years from new, Lord Merriman asked, when these half-brothers and half-sisters fall in love and want to be married...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Artificial Insemination Poses No Problem to Our Society | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...continuation of their disagreement last December before the Joint Congressional Committee investigating industrial profits, the two economists split over the advisability of employing heavier taxation to limit corporate profits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYP Discusses Freedom; Economists Debate Taxes | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

Center Ring. The main ring in Washington's three-ring circus is the official circle. Here are the big governmental names which the successful hostess, of whatever circle, must catch. Most of them are ready to be caught: they hold offices of high prestige and medium salaries, which limit their own powers of entertaining. In, this ring, Perle Mesta is supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Widow from Oklahoma | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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