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Word: limited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is a limit to what the Government can do, or what it should be required to do, but no one should be allowed to suffer from want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Jones on Past & Future | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...will sail June 29 from Shanghai on the President Hoover. No time limit is set for his return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Investigator | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Credit," developed by Philadelphia's Lit Brothers and now widely emulated. The letter of credit, issued by the store's credit department, is given to the sales clerk, who notes on the letter the amount of each purchase, the customer being able to buy up to the limit of the letter but no more. Also widely used are "budget plans," varying in detail but all alike on one prime point-any type of merchandise can be bought on credit, paid for in installments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Broader & Easier | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

With a very large number of men from 1937 going to New York next year the prospects for further growth loom large. At the moment there is a limit of 550 resident members, which quota is now full, a waiting list of 20 being in existance. Membership qualifications are approximately the same as those of the Harvard Club of New York. The initiation fee is $5, annual dues $10, meals $.85 and $1.00. The Club is open five days a week for lunch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Downtown Harvard Lunch Club in New York Rates as Third Largest Club in Country, Counts Almost Six Hundred Members | 6/9/1937 | See Source »

...Presidents really "pack" the Court? Indeed yes, says Mr. Hendrick. As examples he cites Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Grant. Congress once packed it too, when it voted to limit the Court's membership to seven rather than let President Johnson fill the two vacancies. "That all Presidents 'pack' the Court by placing in it men sympathetic with their states of mind, the record shows." But Mr. Hendrick believes that in the long run the Supreme Court, no matter whether it is regarded as a packed trunk or a Pandora's box, reflects the changing voice, the unchanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Constitution | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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