Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pace. At 300 miles, he withdrew when his Gilmore Special broke a spring shackle. The last of four new Ford V-8's went out at 360 miles. At 450 miles, a drizzle made the track slippery and officials waved the yellow flag. This meant that the speed limit was 75 m.p.h. and the drivers were to hold their relative positions. By the time the rain stopped, there were only 20 miles left. Kelly Petillo, who had taken the lead when Mays was forced out and held it ever since, knew then that if his car held together...
...American universities showed a lamentable majority which thought that everything was as important as everything else, it will hardly be here denied that every subject permitted for concentration is not of equal value. Nor, with an increasing percentage of students going on to graduate study, should the College limit itself to providing technical competence in a chosen field even of undoubted substance. The intensification of the tutorial system and general examinations by elimination of conflicting restrictions such as the elementary language requirements and hour examinations is all to the good. But there is room in the curriculum for more than...
Those of us who think fly fishing is the only sport worth mentioning have reached the limit of endurance...
...responsible executive that the reason was that in case of a wreck the sleeper's head would come in contact with the steel partition which would naturally increase chances of an immediate death, the reason for this being that a number of States have laws which limit the liability of the rail-road in case of death but do not limit the liability in case of injury...
...President took his party's sturdiest political wheelhorses-Jack Garner, Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison, Joe Byrns, Jim Farley. After a lunch of venison steak the party retired to the sun-sparkling private lake, where the President reeled in the day's best catch- ten trout, the legal limit. Followed a dinner of broiled pheasant, after which chairs were drawn about a crackling fire and six professional politicos put heads together to scheme their way out of the Bonus...