Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble with examinations. Nearly all of them express the impossible wish to abolish the entire system if a substitute could only be found. Woodrow Wilson when President of Princeton had section men make up his final tests. He is known to have on occasion described the result as the "limit" and assured his students, "I'll see that it won't harm...
...Freshmen and combination eights, the former unchanged in seating, A. H. Parker '32 stroking the latter, paddle to the three mile limit during the morning workout, Coach Haines giving careful attention to the boat which he hopes will continue its winning streak by taking the Eli first year men into camp on June 20. The combination is making excellent progress, the recent shift not having been made so late as to hinder development...
...chance to ponder such verities. Over the horizon from the north, looming bullet-grey in the brightening morning, moved four-fifths of the nation's fighting seapower. As an engineer Mr. Hoover had to admire. As a President with instincts toward creative civilization, who had just engaged to limit such power mutually with other nations, he must have pondered...
...leaving a log, a little thing crept to the bow and took flight, climbing rapidly and straight away over the sea. Another bee followed, then another, another. On the Lexington's flight deck, the concatenation of motors was heightened by one motor opened almost to its limit. Up the clean wood deck, between the broad yellow guide lines, darted the first of the Lexington's little broad-winged, single-seated biplane fighters, light blue below, yellow on top, with thunder-bolting eagles on its sides. Away it shot over the concave precipice of the ship's square...
...essential difference between it and the Concentration program in force at Harvard lies in the fact that Yale would make Concentration a privilege and an honor while Harvard makes it a necessity. Although this sauce of distinction would perhaps make Yale's plan more palatable, it would necessarily limit the scope of the Concentration idea...