Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university which has already incurred scholarly suspicion by the closing of its library cannot afford to permit a temporary situation, easily misinterpreted, to become permanent. Both economy and the difficulties of choice have a limit, and as a vital scholarly need must limit the first, so should three years have limited the second. Under Professors de Wulf and Gilson scholastic philosophy filled a prominent place in the course list; that place should not be vacant much longer...
...last week paid a second visit to the Capitol to advocate the Vinson bill before the Naval Affairs Committee. That measure calls for 102 new ships (95 destroyers and submarines) at a cost of at least $380,000,000 to replace present ships as they pass the useful age limit. Promptly the committee approved the Vinson bill, sent it to the House for passage this week...
This is what is embraced by the President's proclamation fixing the value of the dollar at about 59 cents as compared the dollar at about 59 cents as compared to its former gold content. Broadly speaking. It means that Mr. Roosevelt has set an upper limit of 60 cents-indeed, Congress did that for him--and he has now fixed a lower limit of 59.06 to be exact, so that foreign governments may know there is less than one per cent of variation upward that Mr. Roosevelt can make and there is slightly over nine per cent that...
...President's latest proclamation, therefore, may be hailed as a constructive step forward--a movement in the direction of real stablization, though it may take several months yet to find out whether Congress was right in setting the upper limit at 60 cents or whether the dollar is really worth more than is claimed for it here...
...somebody forgot to put a limit on what the farmer could do with each acre--that is, intensive cultivation through the use of fertilizer. Also nature and the weather man sometimes increase production beyond expectations even on a given number of acres. Then there were the chiselers, who, while in a minority, have nevertheless aroused the feelings of those farmers who cooperated wholeheartedly with the plan...