Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room Hawkings home (called "The Limit," because it is the last house on Shanghai's southwestern boundary) at once became a front-line position. Nationalist soldiers pulled down fences all around, dug trenches through neighboring gardens, put neighboring houses to the torch. When one group of soldiers started to chop down Mrs. Hawkings' trees, she told them: "We've lived in this house for 27 years and brought up five daughters here, and we can't have this sort of thing going on." The soldiers, overwhelmed by her bearing and her perfect Chinese, obediently put away...
...trouble broke out when the Princeton Graduate Interclub Committee announced its intention Wednesday to limit club football weekends to two per season, neither of them on the Yale weekend...
Artist Bishop freely admits her subject-matter is limited. "I try to limit content, to limit everything," she explains, "in order to get down to something in my work. You know, I'm glad this isn't one of the great periods of art. I could never paint a great subject, and the fun about painting today is that we don't have to. We can paint the little things, things that perhaps no one noticed before...
Social life for young women in Japan remains extremely limited. College girls would never be permitted to attend a dance. When a group of American G. I's from the occupation forces attempted to get the president of Kobe to hold a dance in the gymnasium last year, Miss Tambe related, the president put an unconditional "no" on the proposal. There's a limit to progress...
...ruling now before the School Commission cannot affect the possibility of the HDC's using the Rindge stage. Seaver said, since either the three-day limit or the difficulty of filling the vast auditorium for an ordinary college production alone places it out of the Club's reach...