Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stolid, blanketed kinsmen sat in the sun outside the courthouse, occasionally rising to peer curiously through the windows at a ritual they did not understand. Some of the more adventurous found a place in Globe where "the picture that dances" was being exhibited. Cinema ushers had to limit them to two performances in succession for one admission...
Ambassador Edge put on his hat and called his car. By nightfall he had a promise from the Ministry of Agriculture that the apples would be admitted as soon as passed by sanitary inspectors. That was not the limit of his victory. In future, only apples packed in barrels need be inspected. De Luxe Winesaps from Oregon, tissue-wrapped and in boxes, may enter France without question. Grateful importers offered to build a $40,000 apple shed on the Havre docks where blue-capped douaniers could inspect apples in comfort...
...Passed a bill by California's Johnson denying Department of Commerce permits to small craft used to ferry fun-seekers to gambling and drinking resorts aboard ships anchored outside the three-mile limit; sent it to the House...
...number that has been set as a limit for future classes represents approximately the average number of men who have enrolled in this field in other years. The limit has been established in order to keep the field at about its present size, and is a regulation which is deemed of importance in maintaining high standards among the undergraduates who concentrate in the field...
...explaining the creation of a limit of this kind on the entrance of new men into the History and Literature Field, it has been said that this field gives no courses of its own. For this reason a man refused admission to concentration is not cut off from any courses in either History or Literature; courses of this kind are given either under the Department of History or under some other Department, and hence may be elected for study by students in the same way as ever before. The rule will, however, limit the number of students who are actual...