Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...States. A long history of Supreme Court decisions had affirmed in strong language that the States controlled the tidelands. In 1933, when prospectors applied to the Interior Department for federal leases to tideland oil deposits, Harold Ickes said, "Title to the soil under the ocean within the three-mile limit is in the State of California, and the land may not be appropriated except by authority of the State...
...majority decision was that former decisions referred to tidelands, and the strict definition of tidelands is the land covered by the ebb and flow of the tides. No court ruling had ever been made covering the area between this tideland definitely owned by the states and the three-mile limit claimed by the United States...
Raising money for any liberal arts school in a scientific age is hard enough; raising it for a women's college, as Dean Mclntosh knows, is the limit. As a male educator once put it: "When a man wants to leave money to his college, he leaves it. When a woman wants to leave money to her college, she finds that her late husband has tied up her money in a trust fund so that she can't make a fool of herself...
There was a limit, he said, to the money the U.S. could invest in its own security. Added General Bradley: "It is clearly apparent that in the absence of any precipitant danger, the nation must curb within reason that share of the national income it would devote to its common defenses . . . The danger of conflict today appears to have slackened, partly because we are chewing sedatives in this constant war of nerves...
Susaeta claims that if it weren't for the dollar shortage he could sell $500,000 worth of Holsteins to Chileans alone. Chile has done as much as it could to help. This year it raised the permissible limit on dollars for purebred imports by 100%. Unfortunately for Salesman Susaeta, he has already almost filled the resulting $100,000 limit, and still has eleven months...