Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While I have consistently counseled resort to conference and negotiation, and sought to avoid the use of force, there is obviously a limit to this policy, if orderly government, as we know it here, is to go on." "Insurrection!" Despite this solemn warning, the sit-down of 6,000 Chrysler employes rolled on last week along the trail blazed by the G. M. strike. As the deadline approached which Circuit Judge Allan Campbell had set in his injunction ordering the sit-downers to evacuate, 30,000 to 50,000 roaring sympathizers massed around the eight seized plants in giant picket...
After a week's delay due to an unexpected cold snap, Weld boat house opened for the spring season at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Regular hours will be from 10 to 6 o'clock, with the limit for leaving the dock...
...sort from those that jarred the Midwest. Beneath California the terrestrial stresses and strains that built the geologically youthful Rocky Mountains are still active, and there are huge subterranean faults (rock fractures along which a shearing motion occurs). Subjected, to a continuing strain, the earth gradually bends until the limit of elasticity is reached, then slips suddenly along the fault plane. The quake of 1906 was caused by a horizontal slip of 21 ft. along the San Andreas fault...
Most notorious ship in the world last Jan. 6 was a blunt-nosed little Spanish freighter named Mar Cantabrico. With $720,000 worth of second-hand U. S. airplanes for Spain's hard-pressed Reds, she lolloped out of New York harbor and over the Three-Mile Limit only one hour before the House passed a bill making such shipments illegal. As she chugged off to Vera Cruz to pick up $1,300,000 more in munitions, disgruntled U. S. neutralityites opined that though she had passed the Scylla of Congress she might have greater difficulty avoiding the Charybdis...
...Turned down a proposal by Teachers College's Professor George D. Strayer to limit membership to Ph.D...