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Word: limiteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minimum of truth in it; but in actual practice it is absurd. If anybody can ride in the proposed coaching-excursion boats, who will there be left to fill the observation cars at New London? Peanut galleries are all right in their proper place, but there is a limit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Naively Humorous Writer | 3/18/1931 | See Source »

...manufacture in the interests of mass production. For the establishment of a high degree of specialization in the secondary school when the child is but twelve years old is another step toward the reduction of the individual to the status of a machine. Early vocational training is going to limit the range of the individual's knowledge and confine it to a field entered upon before he had any mature conception of the direction of his tastes and talents. The result will be a worker, efficient in his province but lacking in the resources of a general education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOUBLE-CROSSING THE FORD | 3/18/1931 | See Source »

...addition the restriction would add to the already heavy burden of the preparatory school. Already forced to cram their students for the College Entrance Examinations, the restriction would force them to go even faster in order to finish within the time limit. It would seem that some selective method might be found which did not have these disadvantages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FOUR-YEAR PLAN | 3/10/1931 | See Source »

Item: H. R. H. maintained that he carried his own chips about not to encourage high play but to limit it to maximum units of ?5. the highest denomination of H. R. H's chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ich Deal | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Record placed first in the 70-yard high hurdles with Hawes and Watkins coming in second and third respectively in the 70-yard dash. Record won a close race, being pushed to his limit by Arthur Devoe of Yale. His time was 8 7-10 seconds. Hawes' placing ahead of Watkins came somewhat as a surprise to Harvard, inasmuch as it was expected that the latter would win the event. Kelly of Georgetown won the dash in 7 1-10 seconds, equalling the meet record made in 1923 by Harold Lever of Pennsylvania. Estes gained third honors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SECOND IN I.C.A.A.A.A. MEET | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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