Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though it was almost dusk when he arrived at his camp. President Hoover impatiently broke out his tackle, began casting with a "Royal Coachman" and a "Grizzly King." Next day he used the same flies, plus a "Silver Doctor." Into his creel went 20 trout, the legal limit. No Sunday fisherman, he visited the school he had built near his camp, questioned Miss Christine Vest on the progress of her 18 pupils...
...leads to a study of the factors influencing this suspension of solid matter, for the facts seem to indicate some unexpected conclusions, such as that a rain storm does not materially reduce the 'dust count' of the atmosphere. And yet something is reducing it, or it would increase without limit. Much work remains to be done on this question...
Citizen Flamm also mentioned in a chatty sort of way the pleasure it had given him to see the London Conference entirely fail thus far to achieve limitation of undersea craft. "The French refusal to yield to the demands of America and England to limit construction of submarines was a cultural move," he beamed approvingly, "because the possession of submarines means protection of the smaller countries from Anglo-Saxon supremacy...
Last week, as he emerged from Pennsylvania, Miami officials announced that they would oppose to the limit his return to Palm Island, branded his presence as "a detriment to the whole community...
Gurdjieff defined a normal person as one ''capable of actualizing his own potentialities." Great example: Leonardo da Vinci. The normal person, he declared, was developed to his biological limit. He believes, for instance, continual selfconscious attention to olfactory sensations would finally render a man's nose as keen as a dog's; that similar results could be obtained with other mental, physical, emotional potentialities. Most famed Institutee: the late Katherine Mansfield, who died of advanced consumption (1924) at the Institute. Other onetime Institutees: Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson (onetime editors of the late Little Review...