Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be interesting to now that the open season for attractive ybung males is on in Boston, whether the deplorable lack of interest in outside activity will limit the number of stags at the Somerset during the long winter evenings. Anxious motherhood may well feel an unusual apprehension in view of the widespread rumor that students are now interested in studies. If Harvard men forsake the ball-room, this last infirmary for noble minds, and refuse to go, marching in close order to answer a maiden's prayer, undergraduate interest in things intellectual will Indeed be permanently confirmed...
...John Bull, you refused to swallow our sort of disarmament pill at the Coolidge Naval Limitations Parley in Geneva (TIME, June 27 to Aug. 15. 1927). We offered to limit all classes of ships. You offered, instead, another sort of pill, suggesting that we limit only the larger naval craft and leave unlimited small cruisers and small submarines...
...John, you know that your naval bases in all parts of the world enable you to use small ships of short cruising radius with deadly effect. We are not so well provided with bases, and so we must have larger ships of longer cruising radius. When you propose to limit large ships and leave small ones unlimited, you are proposing to limit only the ships we chiefly need, while leaving unlimited the ships you chiefly need...
Upon approaching the impressive gates of the post proper, one feels the influence of the Army, and within the barriers such signs as "Speed Limit Twelve Miles per Hour." "Government Property" all confirm the impression of smooth organization. However, a spirit of friendliness prevails once the first awe is overcome, and there is no such thing as monotony at Ethan Allan...
...Supposing that the legal limit were six children, and supposing that twins should be born to Their Majesties, who already have five children, then the position of Sir William Joynson-Hicks would be that of his hypothetical nurse...