Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This Order concerns the next Officers' Camps. At first the minimum age limit was twenty-one years, which prevented the majority of last summer's Corps from applying. The present change, however, to twenty years and nine months lets in many who would otherwise have been in-eligible. Looking ahead the prospects are likewise encouraging. The younger men, under the new ruling, will be able to go into training camps three months sooner than under the previous system...
...confidence between the two nations. The policy of the Open Door, inaugurated by Secretary Hay at the time of the Boxer Rebellion has now been brought to a successful conclusion, for Japan has at last declared that she will in no way impair the sovereignty of China, nor limit the right of free and open trade on the part of all nations. In return for this, the United States agrees to recognize that Japan has special interests in China, particularly in those parts adjacent to her territory...
...This is a new day for individual responsibility," he said in conclusion: "When Europe has given 5,000,000 men, can we say that we have gone the limit when we have given only to the edge of our incomes? This is above all the time for devotion and commitment of self to every true cause...
could not gain, and the informals took the ball on downs. An 18-yard pass, Thorne to Delaney was the only real advance by either team, both being content to limit their attacks to line plays...
This autumn, when most of us are out of sorts chafing at enforced inactivity, critical of the government, dissatisfied with the army, and in particular with its age limit of twenty years and nine months and in no way trying to conceal our misery, the few who still seem happy assume heroic proportions. We ask the secret of their cheer, and the invariable answer is their sense of humor. Just what is sense of humor? The dictionary tells us that it is "the ability to perceive the comic." But the lexicographer knew nothing of the subject...