Word: limitable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Corporation has followed the wishes of the subscribers to the fund by making a number of promotions carrying increases of salary and by making the following increase of salaries, beginning with instructors whose appointment is without limit of time: Professors will receive $4000, to be increased to a maximum of $5500; associate professors will receive $3500, to be increased to $4500; assistant professors who are still eligible to promotion to a professorship, or an associate professorship, will be appointed at $2500 in the first five-year term and $3000 in the second five-year term as hitherto; instructors will receive...
...relief from the imperative "ought," said Mr. Crothers, comes recreation as a rest from excess of responsibility. Without play we should seen reach the limit of elasticity the power of healthful reaction after work which makes work possible. The touchstone for recreation is the word "wholesome." So long as recreation restores our bodily power and our capacity for seeing things in proportion, we need not inquire as to its ethics. Any recreation which is really restful can do no harm. The trouble today, the speaker said, is that play is made, not a rest from work, but an added burden...
...match tonight, a time limit will be enforced of 20 moves for each man during the first hours, and 15 moves during each succeeding hour. Games not finished by 12 o'clock will be adjudicated...
...lower room and the basement of Dane Hall, west, have been given over, by the Corporation, to the Division of Chemistry, as the limit of the capacity of Boylston Hall has been reached. During the summer these rooms will be altered for the use of Chemistry 3, and provision will also be made for an assistant's room, a store-room and a coat room occupied by Chemistry 3 will be altered to accommodate Chemistry 4, and Chemistry 9 and 10 will be moved to the room formerly occupied by Chemistry 4. The overflow in the organic laboratory will...
...Gompers said that labor unions do not desire to establish a uniform wage, but merely a minimum wage. No effort is made to limit production. The chief aim is to promote industrial peace and steadily improve the condition of working people. Unions seek to avoid strikes when possible; but it has been found that the unions best prepared to strike are those which have struck least...