Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because modern methods of steel facing (an electrical process) can make the surface of any plate as hard as steel itself, there is no practical limit to the number of prints a modern artist can turn out from a single plate. But contemporary artists usually limit their prints to sets of 25 to 200 copies, destroying their plates after they have printed the limited number. Unlike the great printmakers of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, who sold their prints for a song (Hogarth: 25? to $1.75; Goya: 30?; Dürer: 80? to $2.40), modern printmakers sometimes...
...drunkenness is sternly forbidden. Penalty: a fine up to $500, five years in jail; or both. Bartenders are also punished for getting their customers drunk. On Hawaii's first day of repeal, 17 men, five women were convicted of drunkenness. They were fined up to the limit, sentenced to jail for as long as six months...
...Power to Borrow. Sooner or later taxes become intolerable. But borrowing raises a new worry. With the national debt ($62.3 billions) already within easy hail of the limit ($65 billions), Chairman Doughton has the thankless job of asking Congress to raise the limit to $125 billions. Problem: not whether to borrow, but from whom...
Johnny Krol, Chase's selection for one of the defense posts, is an important cog in the balanced Dartmouth line. His work has been termed consistent and aggresive, and has helped limit opponents to 22 goals throughout the entire campaign. Goalie Captain Ted Lapres, of the same team was picked as the outstanding net-minder that the Harvard team has faced this year...
Harder hit by priority restrictions than most other stores in the Square, the Bicycle Exchange, at a time when the demand for its commodity has increased fivefold, must now limit its business because materials essential for bicycle production are needed in defense industries...