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Word: limiteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employes of the Horn & Hardart nickel-in-the-slot restaurant chain walked out, but what they lacked in numbers was more than made up in zeal. For the dispute soon boiled down to old-fashioned police-baiting. Immediate issue was the right of the police to limit the number of pickets. Total arrests ran above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: End of an Institution | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...exploit to the limit each of these climactic events was easier for Director Frank Lloyd and his cinemauthor associate, Howard Estabrook, than to relate them coherently and plausibly in a film of less than two hours' duration. Too experienced a craftsman to suspend the full weight of so freighted a period on romance's slender cord. Director Lloyd makes a valiant try at hooking up Wells & Fargo with everything in sight, from notorious Lola Montez to Lincoln's second inaugural address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...keeps a sharp eye on all promising junior players to detect, if possible, embryonic Davis Cuppers. For, blushing unseen among the juniors might be another Donald Budge, Robert Riggs, Frank Parker or Joseph Hunt-all of whom started playing first-rate tennis before they were 18 (junior-division age limit). The age limit for the boys' division is 15, but there is no law against a boy or a junior playing in an older division. Vincent Richards won the U. S. men's doubles championship with William T. Tilden in 1918 when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Future Cuppers | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...salaries of pages. 3) Lending four of the Capitol's gallery of portraits of signers of the Declaration of Independence to the Corcoran Art Gallery for a belated sesquicentennial exhibition. 4) A minor amendment to the Credit Union Act. 5) An extension of the time-limit in which a bridge may be built over the Tennessee River at Sheffield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Five Weeks | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Specifically, as summarized by the National Economic and Social Planning Organization, it would be necessary during the war not only to limit all trade to peace-time levels and abandon American shipping (except for narrowly defined neutral zones), but also to control rigidly the credit and finance of the country. Moreover, to keep our economic system from becoming geared to a war-time pitch, with the inflation this entails, it would be necessary to control industrial and agricultural production and to fix all prices. More than this, the government would have to begin even now, in peace-time, to build...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA'S INFANT PSYCHOSIS | 12/14/1937 | See Source »

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