Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drys find themselves faced in both committees by hostile chairmen. They expect poor service in obtaining further legislation, either to make our ships legally dry on the high seas or to extend the three-mile limit to twelve miles. The hand of death has fallen heavily on the Dry cause...
...gear is a section of cased shafting, turned by a 5-horsepower motor. The driving end was speeded up to 17,000 revolutions per minute, while the other end of the shaft was making only five revolutions an hour. It has lifted 12 tons and has not reached its limit. The gear has no cogwheels nor even teeth, but turns on ball bearings between rollers of various diameters, slightly off center. The difference in diameters establishes the rate of reduction in speed and increase of power...
...comparatively diminutive Helen Wills twice pushed burly Molla Mallory to the limit, once in the national finals and later at Longwood. This year the shadow Miss Wills casts across the title net is truly fearsome. The critics will have a chance to measure it when she steps forth at Seabright on July...
...vogue, losing money cheerfully in the larger interest of music. They printed modernists, when "nobody" wanted a page of the modernists. In particular they published the .works of the new school of Italian modernist composers. These had been unable to get publication in Italy. Firms like Ricordi and Sozogno limit themselves chiefly to opera publications, where the profits are probable and large, and let these crazy modernist fellows severely alone. But today the Italian modernists are enjoying quite a vogue throughout the world. The head of the Universal Edition of Vienna, which with Breitkopf and Hertal has the highest rank...
...Speaking before the Hall of Gray's Inn, London, I hailed the U. S. Supreme Court as 'a great lighthouse standing firm even when furious storms of discontent lash the national waters.' Lord Justice Adkins, who presided, mentioned the Court's one-hour time limit for counsels' speeches, and said he had known great English advocates who would find an hour insufficient to get within speaking distance of the real point. Much laughter greeted this sally...