Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...making a refund of 12 per cent on the 1926 income taxes during 1927. The President gave as his reasons for this proposal the fact that there is at present a large government surplus in the Treasury and also the fact that government economy is being pushed to the limit...
True as it is that the Lampoon stands too often in its own shade to need the help of such a sapling, there is a limit to vandalism and that, in the philodendronic sense, is the bark or outer periphery of an Ibis tree. The poor old Ibis has done enough to hurt her breed in the last few days without becoming dispossessed of her perch upon the Ibis bough. Unlike Horace who was quite selfish when his famous tree fell, the CRIMSON worries more about the tree than the fact that its fall hurt no one but the reputation...
Capt. Ernest Maurras, S. S. Paris: "I piloted my ship to France for the last time last week. Myron T. Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France, was one of my passengers. I have reached the age limit, 55, after 37 years of seafaring. To newsgatherers I would only say: 'I would rather not speak about it at all.' I shall recross the ocean this month as an ordinary passenger to attend the wedding of one of my children...
Dean Edgell, when interviewed yesterday, said, "The first dictionary definition of a symposium is 'thinking party'. I shall limit my contribution to this 'party' to a discussion of how religion is expressed in architecture, sculpture and painting. In proving these various instances, I shall have a dozen or more slides for illustration...
...Forecasts had the Wanderlust and before long Caution Forecast and his wife, Prudence embarked tourist third class, for Plymouth, Mass, on the May flower. Oh this voyage their three children, triplets, were barn. They would be known as The First Americans, for they were born within the three-mile limit, but unfortunately they had no passports and were not allowed to land. It was a sad day for the Forecast family when these three miles of humanity had to be thrown overboard. And that almost broke the Forecast line, for poor Prudence could not stand the rigors...