Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Limit? Unquestionably, the ladies lacked the crinoline-&-poke-bonnet zeal of their forerunners. Perhaps they had become jaded with success. There were even some faint, uncertain signs of a retreat. One woman delegate knitted steadily through the three-day session. Another viewed with alarm the idea of community-cooked meals as a chore-saver. "Too many women find creative satisfaction in cooking," she cried. There were other signs of a return to old-fashioned ideas. The corset had already re-encircled the female waist; motherhood was at a 30-year peak of popularity...
Some were beginning to suspect what no man would dare to suggest-that women had carried the drive for equality to just about the physiological limit...
...Strayer of Columbia's Teachers College, to decide where to put them all. Last week, the Strayer report urged California to start three new four-year colleges, eight new junior colleges (present total: 55), expand courses at two of the eight University of California campuses, but set a limit of 20,000 students apiece on the two big ones (Berkeley and Los Angeles). President Robert Gordon Sproul, the big man on all eight campuses, had his way on one important point. The commission told the little colleges to leave advanced and professional education...
...touches part of yesterday's announcement. The location is fine for a theater, and the proximity to Sanders may be valuable for rehearsal arrangements. The big question is whether an adequate new theater can be built, along with the other two parts of the plan, within the $750,000 limit fixed by the Committee. To skimp the theater would be inexcusable. It should be a theater, not an auditorium--a theater with at least 1500 seats, adequate dressing rooms, a modern stage, and a projection booth and other technical facilities. Without those qualities its usefulness would plummet downwards, negating...
Saturday morning, the groggy traders tried to sell before the gong rang. In 20 minutes, May corn fell another 8? limit. One flustered trader put a sell order in the wrong pocket of his coat. Before he found it, the price drop had cost...