Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband had mortgaged their farm to buy Corporation Securities in 1930. "We thought," said she, "the new stock was good stock. . . . Altogether they got $15,000 of our money. If we could get half of it back we'd kiss them. . . . You trust people in corporations to the limit and then they treat you like that...
...particular rejoicing around the White House campfires. As a rich and reactionary Pittsburgher, as the Senate spokesman for Andrew W. Mellon, as the close ally of Pennsylvania's manufacturer and bankers, Senator Reed personified to Roosevelt Democrats all the things the New Deal was against. Capitalizing to the limit on Roosevelt prestige and brazenly comparing the $678,000,000 poured into his State as relief and loans by the Roosevelt Administration to the $12,000,000 by the Hoover Administration, Democrat Guffey went about Pennsylvania lauding the President as "God's inspired servant." Even the belated...
...neighboring normal school provides a noble share of the tragic humor in any democracy. It enthusiastically fosters huey longs and pink toothbrush, joe penners and streamlined bathtubs, athletes foot and esquire. It glories in the Sir Galahad account of the Spanish-American War, and it establishes as a natural limit to the study of civics, the skeleton of the local street-cleaning department...
...Copeland was wise to limit his selections to the literatures of four great modern languages: French, German, Italian, and Russian. Had he gone farther, into the Classics for example, his book would have been too comprehensive. As it is, we have generous selections from Villon, Ronsard, La Rochefoucauld, Moliere, de Sevigne, Balzse, Louys, Goethe, Nietzsche, Zweig, Dante, Destoyevsky, Chetchov, Andrayev, and scores of others, each in a standard version and selected with the highest discrimination. As far as I know, this collection is unique. It should be of incalculable value in providing the modern reader with a full assortment...
There are many features in the present advisorial regime which thwart its efficacy and limit the scope of its beneficial activity. Chosen indiscriminately from the Faculty, changed at frequent intervals, receiving no extra remuneration or alleviation of University duties for their advisorial work, the majority of the advisors have neither the qualifications nor the interest which are essential if there is to be effective guidance. Not only are too many Freshmen assigned to the same man, but there is no attempt to assign the newcomers interested in some particular subject to an advisor who is connected with that field...