Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference fight with the Senate to limit to $61,500,000 (instead of $100,000,000) the new bond issues authorized for TVA to buy private utility properties. The House gave up a provision restricting TVA's operations to the Tennessee River's watershed, but achieved the same limitation for the time being by earmarking all the new money for specific purchases, thus requiring TVA to apply to Congress again before starting any more projects. The bill went to the President...
...contrary to every fact. ... I am calling this to the attention of the public because it represents a culmination of other false news stories to which the attention of the United Press has been called by me and by my office on previous occasions. . . . This latest episode . . . represents the limit of any decent person's patience...
...figures. Although many of these figures are inordinately difficult to learn, most are very dull to watch. The second half of a figure-skating contest is free skating, where invention counts as well as execution. Theoretically unlimited, in practice most free-skating repertories, including Sonja Henie's, are limited by the fact that competitive figure skaters ordinarily perfect no more feats than they need to eke out four minutes (five minutes for men) in competition. This official time limit was determined by the period figure skaters can leap and whirl without falling on their exhausted faces. Although Henie...
...prospected in patent-leather shoes, drove a stagecoach only long enough to get his literary stake. He wrote his frontier successes when he had long been sitting comfortably behind a desk. Far from being unappreciated, when the Atlantic Monthly offered him $10,000 a year, the frontier went the limit to hold him. He was offered $5,000 a year, plus $100 for each poem and story, a quarter interest in the Overland Monthly. The University of California offered him an additional sinecure of $300 a month. But he turned it all down, preferred his congenial brief fame...
Miss Harriette Mercer, 26, a strapping, dusky laundress, was presented to His Highness at a Harlem reception. It was love at first sight; and the fact that the Prince had some four wives-the limit under Mohammedan law-back in Africa seemed unimportant. Before the Prince returned to Paris, where he is correspondent for Le Senegal, West African weekly, they were engaged to be married. Said the Princess-to-be last week before she sailed to join her fiance: "Every girl dreams of meeting a Prince and marrying him, and it looks like my dream will come true. . . . I really...