Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that the graduates were getting behind rowing stronger every year. "We've all got to push and push hard", he said. "Graduates are not going to butt in to Harvard rowing. We're all intent on securing cooperation and we're all backing Captain Kelley to the limit." Coach Spuhr, of the 150-pound squad and Dr. Edward Harding '10, crew physician also spoke briefly
This year, for the first time, a limit of 2,000 was put on the membership of the Union after the unexpectedly high mark of 1936 was reached last year. As a result of this limit a good many men were turned away from the club. The limit was placed primarily because of the limited facilities afforded by the Union Dining Room...
...Denmark, and Belgium. Taking a soldier's ration as the standard, the European countries produce about one soldier's ration from three acres of land. We produce only one ration from six acres today. If we increase our effectiveness of production to the European standard, which is about the limit, we would be able to produce about 170,000,000 soldiers' rations...
...states shall ratify or one-fourth shall reject, any vote of a state may be changed" and "when ever one-fourth of the states shall reject . . . further consideration by the states is at an end" is intended to heal this constitutional idiosyncracy, since it also fixes a time limit by providing that "any proposed amendment shall be inoperative unless ratified within eight years." T. E. SANDS...
Subscriber Sands is right. It is possible for a legislature to reverse itself after ratifying or rejecting a proposed amendment to the Constitution. The period in which ratification may take place is unlimited (unless, as in the 18th Amendment, there is a clause setting a time limit-in that case, seven years). An attempt was made to write a time limit, three or five years, into the Child Labor Amendment, but without success...