Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reaction" to the President's speech. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Indeed, the Navy Department was at pains to explain that it was merely repeating what it had said since the international naval disarmament conference of 1922, to wit, that, within the agreed capital-ship limit, the U. S. Navy should be kept 100% efficient...
...found in the Royal Treasury a cash balance of exactly three lei (one and four-fifths of a cent). He found a national deficit of nine billion lei ($54,000,000) ; and that advances already made to the State by the National Bank of Rumania greatly exceeded the legal limit. In short, the new Prime Minister charged his predecessors with every sort of gross malfeasance. They had kept on the State payroll, he said, hundreds of persons now dead and some who were never born. Dolefully he admitted that it might prove temporarily impossible to meet the government payroll charges...
Buell carried the forward passing game to the limit, and for the first time in the history of Harvard football, the forward pass was used as an offensive weapon deep in Harvard's own territory...
...next few weeks will put into the field of intramural competition lightweight football teams similar in their function to the lightweight crews that take to the water in the spring. The plan sets 155 pounds as the line of demarcation; all men above and all below this limit will form separate squads from which class elevens will be chosen...
...potent indeed is Britannia's backing that Editor Frankau has declared: "There is no limit to the money we are able to spend! It cuts no ice in an undertaking of this size. This paper is going to reflect the new spirit of England?the business England of today. They may call Britannia a 'jingo weekly' if they like! After all patriotism is the biggest factor in any successful endeavor. The idea is that everything going into Britannia, from machinery to brains will be all British...