Word: limit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deans of the College will hold an emergency meeting with the Provost next week to consider increasing the College enrollment limit from...
...problem of machines and employment has long been a favorite topic of satirists. In A Modest Proposal Swift similarly suggested that poor Irish mothers be permitted to sell their year-old offspring for 10 shillings. The babies could then be slaughtered, sold as edible meat. This would limit excessive population, furnish a new source of food supply. Clarence Day's Animals in a Machine Age advocated training squirrels to operate textile bobbins, raccoons to run railways. While they worked it would be in the employer's best interest to keep them healthy and fat; when business slackened...
CAPONE MOB COMING BACK, shouted the black streamer below it. The kind of newsbreak that Howey & Co. knew how to play to the limit had come along at just the right time. Four former henchmen of Al Capone had been paroled from prison, and the Herald was sure that they -and maybe even gunplay-were due in Chicago any minute. Across the page from that story, the Herald told all about "two good policemen who are on trial for trying to solve [a] murder." This kind of news, said a front-page editorial, was run "to help Mayor Kennelly prevent...
Sixteen teams have been lined up for the open doubles to extend it to the four round limit...
...Posts, New Towns. "First," he says, "was the fortified post, surrounded by a stockade. Men with guns were careful to see that only a limited number of Indians were admitted to trade at one time. Then the guns disappeared, and the stockades, but still you had a more or less isolated post, with a few houses growing up around it. Then the settlement grew into a town, and a modern store developed-often on the very site of the old fortified post. Today, we don't try to limit the number of customers. Times have changed...