Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Item. The remarkably narrow time limit within which the kidnapping probably took place: 8:30 when Nurse Gow says she last saw the child and 9:15 when Col. Lindbergh sat down under the nursery window...
...chief delegates, declared Correspondent Simonds, were saying among themselves and in non-quotable chats with the Press that it is impossible to reduce or limit armaments at present. But in public statements and permitted quotations the chief delegates remained last week Peace Pollyannas...
...mechanical vibration is sharply resonant, and better than the best electric circuits which can be built Professor Pierce has also been at work on magnetostriction rods, usually an alloy of nickel and steel, used, experimentally, as a source of air waves, similar to sound waves, but above audible limit, especially in the range: 30,000 to 50,000 cycles. Such waves can be focused, confined to narrow beams like those from a searchlight. Both the quartz crystal and magnetostriction rod are being worked on for communication purposes, and are also used to study the elastic properties of materials...
...delegate did take pity on the Press. He explained that this was a meeting of the "Providers" (captains and owners of rum ships) and the "Recipients" (runners who slip the cargoes over the 12-mile limit and distribute it in the U. S.) Rum ships, he added, never clear for the U. S. from Halifax itself. To spare the feelings of Canadian big-port authorities members of the I. R. R. & B. use the smaller Canadian ports of Liverpool, Shelburne, Meteghan, Yarmouth (all in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia...
...many articles formerly costing around 50?, hence enable Woolworth to compete more with department stores. The 20? articles will be mostly in china and glassware. The move will throw Woolworth into much hotter competition with the chains which have hitherto resembled Woolworth stores but have not had a 10? limit, including S. S. Kresge, S. H. Kress, McLellan, F. & W. Grand-Silver, W. T. Grant and Schulte-United Stores...