Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both games were hard-fought, nip-and-tuck affairs. Both went considerably over the seven-inning limit. Monday's softball game was won with a 4 to 2 score by virtue of a two-run outburst in the eleventh inning...
...Houses of Parliament, did his best to bury centralization. Said he: ". . . In considering new methods of organization to bring the nations of the Commonwealth closer together, we can not be too careful to see that, to our own peoples, the new methods will not appear as an attempt to limit their freedom of decision or, to peoples outside the Commonwealth, as an attempt to establish a separate bloc. ... I am told that, some where, over the grave of one who did not know when he was well off, there is the following-epitaph : 'I was well; I wanted...
...Germans, for their part, avoided battle most of the time, fought only when Allied attacks struck too deeply at sensitive targets. Where they had once been able to put 600 fighters into the air to meet any heavy attack, their limit now appeared to be around 400. But the flyers who went up were the Luftwaffe's best; they fought with a skill and bitterness that earned them sober professional praise from their foes...
...interview today with the British and American Ambassadors (Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen and Laurence Steinhardt). They each gave me a note and we exchanged views in the most friendly spirit ... of collaboration which characterizes our relations.... I can say no more. . . . We will . . . aid the Allies to the limit of our material possibilities." This week there was a report that German chrome-trade licenses had been suspended...
...veterans, a few Latin Americans, But there was also the bogey of a draft of 4-Fs into essential industries. By midsummer the national pastime might be almost exclusively a sport for the young and the old. Dodger President Branch Rickey offered a plan: let all the clubs limit their reserve lists of players to an agreed figure and pool the surplus, to be drawn on whenever any club needed a replacement...