Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Pennsylvania and hired Pennsylvania motor transport was banned from their highways. Hundreds of tons of fruit & vegetables had rotted around Pennsylvania's borders by the time a truce between New Jersey and Pennsylvania was reached. Pennsylvania was to enforce its new law "within reason." New Jersey would limit its license demand to "common carriers...
...second effort to protect British agriculture got under way last week with the organization of Empire Farmers' Co-Op., Ltd., an inter-Dominion society to limit production of foodstuffs throughout the British Empire with the announced goal of raising and pegging prices 25% above present levels. Chairman of E. F. Co-Op. is that most composite Empire peer, Trevor Grant of Grant, Baron Strathspey, who was born in New Zealand, is a Baronet of Nova Scotia, lives in Scotland...
...belittles. If asked for her record she might truthfully say: 1) I am the only airplane to have flown both major oceans nonstop. 2) From a beach in Japan I lifted from the sand and flew with a wing loading of 30 Ib. per sq. ft. The maximum theoretical limit for any airplane is 28 pounds per square foot. 3)1 hold the record of having flown farther over water than any other airplane. 4) I am the only airplane ever to have flown the Pacific nonstop. HUGH HERNDON...
...claim upon us of democracy, thus consistently worked out, is imperishable, because it accords as nothing else can with the nature and needs of man,--of man the individual, because it leaves each individual free as nothing else can to rise to the very limit of his powers and character; of man in the mass, the community or state, because after opening to each the maximum incentive to usefulness and wisdom, it enables all, as nothing else can, to profit by the wisdom of the wisest...
...Body' [by Stephen Vincent Benét] was a step in the right direction. I've read it once and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages. Three hundred lines is about the limit. Kipling's 'Recessional' really did something to England when it was published. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around...