Word: limited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hedgers sharply about. They sang paeans of relief and sold stocks and commodities. Because they felt so good and sold so freely prices slumped, threatened to break through the low levels established in last July's reaction. So abruptly did prices fall, particularly wheat prices which broke the limit of fluctuation (5? a bushel), that Governor William Langer of North Dakota declared an unprecedented embargo upon all shipments of North Dakota hard wheat, tying up some 50,000,000 bushels. Some of the hedgers feared that their joy might be the cause of the very disaster they dreaded. They...
...received numerous evasive apologies from the German Foreign Office, knew of only one case in which a Nazi assailant had been punished (by a fine of 50 marks. $17.50). The Velz case in Dusseldorf last week decided Secretary of State Cordell Hull to instruct Professor Dodd to go the limit in demanding satisfaction. To back him up with the potent push of U. S. public opinion, excerpts were published from all 27 affidavits, 19 of them assaults. It was revealed that three days after President Roosevelt's inauguration a U. S. citizen, Mrs. Max Schussler, was molested...
...fares in the territory west of Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans for a six-month trial period starting Dec. 1. The new fares on all trains: 1) basic one-way fare, 3? a mile against 3.6? previously; 2) round-trip tickets with more than a ten-day limit, 2? a mile. Optional with individual roads is a 2? rate for round trip with a ten-day limit and a straight 2½ ?a-mile one-way fare, good on day coaches only. The Pullman surcharge, an amount collected by the railroads equal to one-half the rate charged...
Years ago Navy adopted eligibility rules of Eastern colleges, Army refused. Ceasing to play each other was a severe criticism of the diplomacy of the men who are to represent this country. Games were resumed though Army refused to abide by college rules. Twenty years is the age limit for entering Annapolis, twenty-two for West Point. This allows some graduates of colleges to go to West Point when barred from Annapolis. Men have played three years on college teams and four years at West Point. Army claims all students must have equal opportunity and that football players make fine...
...conducted, has only two purposes: it represents an admirable source of income, and correspondingly, it is calculated to provide a brilliant spectacle for the spectator. Both of these purposes are thoroughly fulfilled by the Army game; football in general may be on a low level; but from the limit of that level, Army towers above all the teams on the Harvard schedule except Yale. The Bates game, for instance, is just as mercenary, much less commendable, and a good deal less interesting than the show provided by the Army and Harvard teams in their annual clash. The argument goes deeper...