Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andreyev's railroadmen: Any worker who falls short of his quota "either in quality or quantity" will be fined; if his failures are due to abnormal working conditions, the deductions from his pay will not exceed 33% ; if his failures are his own fault, 100% will be the limit. After that, Stalin and Andreyev waited, listening...
...BOOM!'' But a old farmer got up in the group an' said, "We all know th' English people is a fine, good-hearted people, an' George V is a real king, an' no mistake, but. drat it all. they is a limit to things. All th' credit in th' world to th' King of England an' th' English people; but we don't have to be Ovendales about it! I say, leave off the boom-de-ay." Then some was shoutin' "We want the boom...
...political bonfire, Kentucky, hardest of hard liquor states, did not repeal its prohibition law. Last week it was still unrepealed when Governor Ruby Laffoon signed a new law regarding the sale of medicinal liquor. Two ways were provided for obtaining it. (1) On prescriptions written by doctors (without limit). (2) On prescriptions which any person over 21 may write for himself, if he declares "I am not addicted to the habit of drink and have not within six months prior hereto, been convicted of drunkenness...
...city department for an early-morning surprise visit. The Health Department's laboratories, which he visited last week, were the first place he found everyone on time and hard at work. After that dynamic Mayor LaGuardia was inclined to make an exception to the city's age-limit rule, let Assistant Director Williams stay...
...against the Government for annulling old ones, as ",one of the most unjust acts I have ever seen in American legislation." 3) Called "impractical" the provision requiring mail planes to carry Army or Navy men as copilots. 4) Objected to the proposed plane- mileage payment schedule as tending to limit the size of mail-carrying planes. 5) Opposed a permanent subsidy for airlines, but saw need for a temporary one. 6) Parried questions about the ethics of his own companies with: "I have not the legal background to make comment on that." 7) Advised separation of manufacturers and operators...