Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain balked. Unless King Abdullah's Arab Legion spilled over into territory marked for Jewish control by the U.N. partition plan, Britain apparently was not going to try to check him. On British insistence, the Security Council voted for another sanctionless truce order, with a 36-hour time limit. While U.N. debated, U.S. Consul General Thomas Wasson, member of the U.N. Truce Commission appointed last month, was killed in Jerusalem by a sniper's bullet...
...Quota. Under a new law, effective last week, touring U.S. citizens may bring into the U.S. $400 worth of goods duty free, providing they have been out of the U.S. at least twelve days. The old limit...
...more than 10 or 12 students can operate successfully in a conference group. The first standard would be, therefore, to limit the size of the groups to that number. The purpose of the conference groups would be, like that of the papers, stimulation, with discussions revolving around the assigned topics or perhaps around some of the papers themselves. Conference groups, like every other educational device, would need good faculty men to make them successful, and in this case men of a particular stimulating kind. Were the conference group plan instituted, however, there is no reason to doubt that the departments...
...clashes as non-strikers ran the gauntlet of massed pickets. About 300 pickets had formed a wall, eight deep, near the Swift & Co. plant's main gate. Sheriff Norman Dieter and a force of 21 cops moved up to read the law: a court order had set a limit of 18 pickets. When no one moved, the sheriff rammed his force against the wall. A few minutes later the bloody, battered cops retreated...
...Euryalus rode at anchor. Then, as midnight approached, the cruiser stood out to sea under a cone of white light from the searchlights of her destroyer escorts. Precisely at midnight (the deadline for Britain's mandate over Palestine), she passed the three-mile limit of Palestine's territorial waters. From Royal Navy headquarters atop Mount Carmel a flare shot up, arched slowly, and fell flaming among the tall dark cypresses on the mountain slope. A few British troops would remain in Palestine until August. But the British mandate had ended...