Word: limited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...absolving the Dining Halls, Dr. Anderson used as evidence the fact that the cases did not occur in an explosive epidemic, but on the contrary, progressed from one building to another over a period of several days. Apparently there is known no specific action which can be taken to limit or prevent the spread of such recurrences...
...price to U. S. producers was boosted to keep it ahead of the mounting world price. But the world price was mounting because of U. S. buying in the world market. When a player shows that he is willing to raise his own ante, there is no limit to the betting...
...speculators do not let the U. S. raise its ante peacefully by easy stages, the U. S. may stop raising-or may raise to the limit-$1.29 an oz., the "legal" silver price set years ago by Congress. In the confusion that would follow this latter move, stabilization of world exchange might be postponed indefinitely. Or confusion might be so great that England and other nations would have to join the U. S. in a stabilization conference...
Manhattan nurses unwound thick bandages from the right eye of beefy, chocolate Sam Langford. An oldtime, hammer-handed prizefighter known to fans as "The Boston Tar Baby," Negro Langford would have been world's Lightweight Champion in 1903 if he had not been eight ounces over the weight limit when he mauled Joe Gans. In 1917 he was stalling through a fixed fight with Fred Fulton when Fulton punched his left eye so hard it had to be taken out. Soon cataracts formed over the right eye. Unable to see more than two feet ahead, Sam Langford fought...
...vital statistics. Dr. Hoffman, a frail and fretful oldster, fidgeted as he ate and drank. For President Duffield had scheduled the banquet as Dr. Hoffman's 70th birthday party. It was a special salute to him, and a farewell. He had passed his company's age limit and, willynilly, was retired...