Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maiden trip. Few weeks later the old Cunarder amazed the world by steaming from New York to Plymouth in 4 days. 17 hr., 49 min., breaking her own eastbound record but not the Bremen's. The effort strained the Mauretania's 30,000 tons to the limit. She never tried it again...
...exchanges, was telling the Belgian Chamber and Senate that he planned to devalue the belga by a maximum of 30% if other nations will join Belgium in an international monetary stabilization pact. If they will not, then the bright blue sky is Premier van Zeeland's devaluation limit...
Since in water polo the most effective way to keep opponents from scoring goals is to hold them under water, the apparent purpose of the players is to drown each other. Rules do not limit the length of time a player may be held under water if he holds the ball or is within four feet of it. When a player feels about to drown he can give the "busy signal," i. e., pinch the man who is holding him and be released immediately. Able water polo players rarely do such a thing. Because water poloists are always extracted quickly...
...with ''a nose for a mine," a useful pair of fists and a shrewd head. As soon as he could, he began to charge top-price fees. 'T exacted from my clients in the way of fees all that the traffic would bear, or almost the limit." Foreseeing a period .of depression after Cleveland's election in 1892, he decided to accept the offer of Diamond Tycoon "Barney"' Barnato (Barnett Isaacs) to be his consulting engineer in South Africa. Six months later Hammond was working for Cecil Rhodes. For seven years...
Having thus given the appearance of a man determined to stick by his guns, Mr. Richberg proceeded to lay down a 17-point program proposing amendments to limit NRA to "what can be legally accomplished." The Weirton decision had cast grave doubt on the NRA's legal power to regulate intrastate industrial affairs simply by spicing the law with the "commerce clause" of the Constitution. With an eye to avoiding a peck of court trouble, Mr. Richberg therefore announced: "Codification should be limited to those trades and industries actually engaged in interstate commerce...