Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...employer who has to choose between a woman with restricted legal limit in the hours she works and the wages she gets, and a man with no corresponding limitation, will naturally choose the man." Therefore, it disapproves of all sex discrimination in labor...
...preparation for this year's meeting, invitations have been sent out to 45 colleges, accompanied by questionnaires, with the purpose of obtaining information about the problems of each university. In this way, the executive committee hopes to narrow down the matters for discussion to the smallest possible limit, since the conference will be too short to consider unnecessary details...
...inclined, rejoice at the opportunity here for indulging their appetite. Between these two lie a great number who honestly desire a well-rounded cultivation which will include a general acquaintance with the field of science, but who have been forced by the make-up of the science department to limit their acquaintance to a year spent in some specific field. This enforced imprisonment with test tubes or telescopes or frogs not only failed to show the relationship and importance of science but made the study toilsome, instead of interesting. Not being able to see the forest for the trees, students...
...successful in defeating an amendment to her anti-liquor bill, which aims at preventing the sale of intoxicants to people under the age of 18. The amendment, which was defeated by 30 to 17 votes, was to exempt beer from the scope of the bill. A second amendment to limit conviction to those people who "knowingly" sold drink to youngsters was carried. During debate Mr. J. H. Thomas (Labor), acting as Chairman of Committee, demurred against the constant interruptions and pointed out the retarding effect they had on the progress of the bill. Lieutenant-Colonel Archer-Shee (Conservative) thereupon offered...
...plans for drawing American states together have been offered by the delegates. Chile proposed an agreement to limit naval armaments following the example of the Four Power Treaty, and Uruguay suggested an American league of nations modelled after the lines of the World League. Together these plans might have gone far toward the realization of Bolivar's dream; but they have been dropped, and the conference, like its predecessors, becomes no more than an opportunity to create "mutual understanding...