Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time-limit for recommendation was Feb. i, hence the cablegram. Evidently, no one had known just how to go about recommending a Nobel candidate-or perhaps no one had taken literally the suggestion, which issued from a vague source some weeks ago, that Mr. Kellogg ought to be recommended. But memories and elbows were jogged just in time. The fact was discovered that members of the Interparliamentary Union, members of Congress and previous Nobel prize men are "duly qualified" for recommending. And off to Oslo went the prayer of, besides Mr. Dawes, the following: Speaker Longworth, Senators Shipstead and Schall...
...year he is doubtless aware that his class had by no means a monopoly of those present. In fact it was openly boasted by a member of a Class of 1928 that, not to mention three "Freshman Jubilees, he then counted four Junior Dances on his record. So why limit his glorious function to members of the Sophomore and Junior classes. And above all let's keep the good old traditional title of "Junior Prom"; it means a lot to the little girl up from Toonerville. H. Bowen Wands...
...Catholics often misunderstand our position on birth control, for they seem to believe that Catholic married couples are bound to have children to the mother's capacity for child bearing. This is not our teaching. It is perfectly ethical to limit the family, if the method used is self control by abstinence and continence. This may even be obligatory, when a mother's life or health would be seriously jeopardized by further childbearing, or when real destitution would result from further additions to the family...
...Chrysler does not ignore the lead with which General Motors starts the contest. But he sees no limit to the markets over which the two motor-monsters can struggle. Last September, he visioned a world which is learning the uses of the automobile: "It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world. . . . Road building is taking root in Australia, vast Africa, Spain, South America. . . . Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile...
...Western Front from the Grand Duke. Stories are still told of the iron discipline which he kept, and of the wise and genuine humanity with which he tempered it. Like Napoleon he was loved because he inspired his men to march and fight to their uttermost, exultant limit, while always feeding and bedding them as well as could 'by any possibility be done. That he defied the Tsar, the politicians and Rasputin separately, collectively and repeatedly is well known. On one celebrated occasion the Black Monk had persuaded the Tsar to order that he, Rasputin, should inspect the Crank...