Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President gave him a recess appointment. In the short session the President repeated this performance and last week presented Mr. Tilson with a second recess appointment. Senators were vexed. Said Senator Harris of Georgia: "If he [the President] can withdraw appointments from confirmation and make recess appointments without limit, he can virtually deprive the Senate of its right to confirm or reject. It seems that an evasion of the Constitution is tantamount to an infraction...
...Timekeeper. He holds a regulation stopwatch and cries out to the Quizzer when 15 seconds have elapsed (the legal time limit between questions...
...idea was born with hearing that Commander Francesco da Pinedo had successfully flown to South America. Another Important usage of the airplane was expected, i.e., in carrying cardinals to the papal election. Whenever a Pope dies the red-hatted cardinals must meet within a time limit of 10 days, which time in the past has been insufficient for American and Australian electors to reach Rome. No American could get to Rome, for instance, at the election following the death of Pope Benedict...
...This rule permits a two-thirds majority of those present to set a time limit on debate and force a vote on the pending bill or resolution. The fact that closure has rarely been enforced shows that Senate minorities are unwilling to give up the filibuster...
...reasons offered by Princeton authorities for their ban on student-driven and owned automobiles, one is paradoxical and the other open to question. The fact that there has been a "frequency of fatal accidents" in Princeton is not common to that town alone. The law, by establishing an age limit which happens to be under that of the average undergraduate, has apparently given the student a legal right to drive a car. Therefore in forbidding automobiles at Princeton on the count of reckless driving, the university appears to take the stand that pursuit of learning and not tender years...