Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been discussing Germany's future in Rome for three weeks (TIME, April 17 et seq.) was the smallest and youngest Premier in Europe, five-foot, 40-year-old Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. He took back to Vienna with him the assurance that Italy would back his Government to the limit providing it gave up any idea of political union with Germany. Italy carefully pointed out that such a union would reduce Austria to the status of a German State like Bavaria...
...more and more apparent that a live and thorough interest in athletics is more to the point in Harvard and its House Plan than is intercollegiate contest. There is no limit to the number of teams of graded ability that interested students can organize; in any way to permit a victorious House to be regarded as unjustified in its victory, or to place House sports in a position of inferiority, is little in accord with the broadest policies of the University...
...other hand, there would be some danger of the course becoming a superficial though civilizing holiday in the realm of the newer classics. It would be wise, on this account, to limit such a course to concentrators in English and a small quota from related fields, requiring occasional written critiques from the students. In this way a thorough and permanent course could be organized to combine the features of the now defunct course on English Critics and Critical Technique given by Professor I. A. Richards two years ago, and English 26 which Mr. T. S. Eliot is giving this year...
...since War days. What sort of Federal control over work and wages would finally come forth even President Roosevelt did not know. He was brooding over a wide assortment of ideas, offered not only by his assistants but by financiers and industrialists who wanted him to go the limit on business dictatorship to end unemployment, restore the nation's buying power...
...over Muscle Shoals and the Tennessee Valley, to refinance farm and home mortgages, to reforest hills, to revamp railroads, to boost wheat, cotton and other prices. Selling a huge bond issue will not be easy until the public knows i) that the ordinary Budget is balanced; 2) what limit is going to be set on extraordinary expenditures...