Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ponderous and immobile of them, has really covered the most ground. In this, her autobiography, she reverts to the limpid, nerveless style which served for the earliest of her books. Not since "Three Lives" has she been so willing to chain herself to the actual meaning of words, to limit her scope so soberly to the common associations which they bring. It was an axiom of the schools that with "The Making of Americans". Gertrude Stein had set out boldly and forever to the promised land where words have other more intimate values; yet in the short stories written...
...only solution is to create a new whole course in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern art for those concentrating in Fine Arts, and limit 1d to those outside the field. Then the few that are chosen could work unhampered by the many that are called, and four out of five would continue to taste delightfully the Pyorrhean spring...
...that agency, an extra-legal body backed only by the President's prestige, given authority to force settlements in the backwash of NRA code-making. The Ford and coal strikes exemplified the stubborn militancy of Labor to overreach itself, the stubborn militancy of Capital to resist to the limit...
...Time 18-Year Limit...
...issue of selling beer to minors has in the past been a comparatively live issue. Before the days of Prohibition, the law as it stood prohibited the sale of beer to anyone under the age of 21 years, but for a time the age-limit was lowered to 18 years, and then, after some months, restored to its former level...