Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more. The Stock Exchange authorities then suspend trading in the stock and settlement is arranged on a "reasonable" price basis fixed by the Stock Exchange governors, usually near the last price of sale. This is a modern humane contrivance. Formerly cornered shorts were forced to pay up to their limit of solvency...
...Passed a bill by Chairman Green of the Ways and Means Committee extending the time limit for War bonus applications to 1930; sent it to the Senate...
Next to insincerity she scorned unintelligence, and was no respecter of persons in giving utterance to her scorn. "The Faculty," she said, "are the limit!" Certain modern methods in the Office she was pleased to call "the deficiency system." To her mind efficiency was the prerogative of individuals: any encroachment of the mechanical on the personal she balked at. "I was born saucy"; and, again, "I may lose my temper; but I never lose my head...
...Stadium with the chairman of the Department occupying the imperial loge in Section 18, the Sargent and Radcliffe girls cast as Vestal Virgins in Section 23, and the members of the course, betoga'ed for the occasion, really "living" the period which they are studying. There is no limit to the pageants which might be staged. Not even the Congress of Vienna, staged in Sanders Theatre, is impossible, though the aid of allied departments might have to be enlisted after history professors had been exhausted in filling the more important roles...
...decreasing from six years to three the lime limit within which a conspiracy must be prosecuted after the act (TIME...