Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over 325 Yardlings have already turned over their six dollars and procured a ticket for the May 1 festivities. Cambridge fire laws limit the sale to 500 couples, the maximum number of people that may be packed into either Memorial Hall or the Union...
...proposal for tightening up the field of Biochemical Sciences has been to limit it to honors candidates only, but this raises again the problem of what to do with non-honors men, who without much doubt would be far less well off in another field. Also to be considered are the group of men who might start out as honors candidates, but after being in the field a year or two fall below the honors level...
Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Randolph declared bluntly: if a draft like that of World War II was enacted, it would result in "mass civil disobedience" on the part of U.S. Negroes. Said he: "Negroes have reached the limit of their endurance when it comes to going into another Jim Crow Army to fight another war for democracy-a democracy they have never gotten." Grant Reynolds, chairman of the Committee against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, soberly agreed...
...Safe Faces. Such restrictions limit stories almost entirely to three types: 1) a wife's (or husband's, or sister's, or laundress') eye view of how the popular favorite "really lives"; 2) the shopgirl-to-star Cinderella story; 3) discreet gossip-usually handled (for up to $1,000 a story) by Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Sidney Skolsky or some other expert big enough to flout studio censorship...
...system has been installed which could deal with contract variations with no increase in labor cost. Record could be kept of the number of meals an individual has eaten in a given week in reference to his contract, and he could pay by coupon for those which exceeded the limit...