Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pack have been members of the Harvard Faculty. They have raved, and raged, and roared, as though the enemy were hammering at our very gates. If they seem now to be getting a little tamer it is not because they are more sensible, but rather because there is a limit to energy even of the hysterical type...
...pledged themselves last week not to take advantage of Lend-Lease by using it to maintain their foreign trade. An agreement was negotiated by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant. The agreement was published as a White Paper, in which the British promised to limit their export business during World War II to the minimum necessary to continue the war effort...
...Department had also done its bit to increase efficiency by setting maximum ages for combat officers up through major generals (TIME, Sept. 15). Newsmen calculated that the new retirement limit would knock out commanders of at least three, and possibly six of the 18 National Guard divisions, would touch none of the 17 Regular Army divisions. Not all these officers will be sent home. Many of them will be assigned to desk jobs, a few may even be kicked upstairs to corps commands...
...first air raid, Mrs. Kennedy took shelter in an underground bakery with "an arthritic old lady" who had passed much of her life in an earthquake belt. She comforted Mrs. Kennedy by observing that "in an air raid you are in the hands of man, and there is some limit to what he can do. But in an earthquake you are in the hands of God and there is no knowing." Soon war was so commonplace that when Mrs. Kennedy took her daughter Ellen for an overnight visit to another resort, their host's children chanted...
...small part of the total amount which will be given to the class in scholarships by the time they graduate. Therefore, it would seem to me that such profits should be recorded and taken into consideration when scholarships are allotted, but it would not be possible to limit the amount given out to the amount of profit or to set any fixed ratio between...