Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Article V. of the Constitution provides that an amendment becomes valid when (no time limit stated) three-quarters of the states have approved it. There is no pro vision for "defeating" a proposed amendment. Isn't it a fact that any state, the legislature of which has disapproved! an amendment, can reverse itself and be re corded in favor by the vote of some future legislature...
There is, however a limit below which expenses cannot be cut and government still function efficiently. No one need fear that expenses will fall below this limit--the bottomless public purse is surety enough. But the question arises: "Will the gross reduction in expenses suffice to make an appreciable lowering of individual taxes?" The answer is doubtful, but there is evidence to make one believe that it will...
...patiently listen to the announcement that the requirements for a degree will advance from 33 1-3 per cent to 50, next to 75, finally to 100,--if we do this, we may as well remove to Somerville at once. But the membership of the Ignorance Club I would limit; in my opinion it should be made something to be striven for, and it should consist of not more than ten or fifteen members. The editors of the College papers should, I think, have the right to the first application. This apparent partiality will probably cause some persons to feel...
...there was a Captain Benjamin Leavitt, who was not content that this paltry 30 fathoms should be set as a lower limit to his activities. In 1922 he bought a ship, the Blakely, from the Shipping Board. He fitted her out for diving and salvaging, and laid in an equipment of patent diving suits of manganese bronze (which resists salt water corrosion), with flexible parts of interlocking copper tubing and ball bearing joints, with portable air equipment, carrying a four-hour supply of oxygen and a telephone...
Smith, playing number five, won from his opponent in a hard fought match which went the full five game limit before the Crimson player finally won. The lead shifted constantly from one player to the other in each game. The scores were...