Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chemistry faculty must assure its students adequate preparation to withstand national competition. To this end, it has arranged a sequence of courses to be followed with little variation, a step-by-step arrangement common to most sciences. In chemistry, however, the large number of required lab hours further limit the student's academic freedom, and unless he chooses chemistry upon entering college, he will be over-whelmed by his later schedule. Running contrary to the University policy of letting the Freshman browse before striking out for himself, these stipulations unnecessarily handicap the man who enters college undecided and practically circumvent...
...Lilienthal controversy, budget estimates, various proposals concerning labor, and consideration of an amendment to limit Presidential tenure have consumed a goodly amount of time without producing either bills or resolutions acceptable to both Houses. But a sizable proportion of Congressional proceedings and almost half the space in the Record have been allotted to material designed for constituent consumption--eulogies of Luther Burbank, St. Patrick, and William Sibert; condemnation of Reds, the New Deal, and executive extravagance; reading excerpts from local editorials, school girl essays, or telegrams from prominent citizens. These opi, printed in the Record (and no Congressman is ever...
...range from all informal dances at Leverett to a preponderance of formals at Lowell. The decision regarding the type of dance is made entirely by the individual dance committee of each House so that a well represented committee should be competent to test House opinion on the matter. A limit of three open dances per year for each House is the only restriction imposed by the University while the number of closed dances is unlimited subject to approval by the House Master...
...generations to aim at from a distance. The use of the memorial Hall transept for the Reims coronation scene was a master stroke of a designer's imagination: with the audience seated in the long hall it became a cathedral even to the acoustics. And that was not the limit of Holabird's invention. His division of the stage into three separate units for the opening scenes would alone have made the staging an unusual achievement...
...vote him $400,000,000 with which to aid Greece and Turkey in the ensuing fifteen months. He was asking that the United States embark upon a gigantic "containing operation" of the Soviet Union, a program whose vastness both in time and money dwarf completely the expenditure and time limit he cited...