Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...geologist, he knew that the earliest evidences of life on the earth were fossil bacteria living in a torrid climate. But climates change in geologic time and heat loving bacteria die. The quota of bacteria must be periodically filled to keep the population thriving...
...whether the future will also be supplied; and the answer is that the probabilities are good. Specifically, the paperboys of the Waldorf and the hand-cart are promising for the time when the present stock is gone, and natural processes will doubtless attract enough new material to keep the quota filled. The dull picture of Harvard without characters will hardly need to be painted for the next generation...
Matches will be contested in seven classes, in five of which the quota of four men are entered. In the 115-pound class and in the unlimited class, however, only two men will appear. Candidates for Olympic honors will be sought from these groups. George Meyerson and Coach W. E. Lewis will act as referees...
...attributed largely to more fundamental causes than that of numerical growth. It will probably be admitted that the further restriction of numbers or the break-up of the college into smaller units would help reestablish the democratic spirit of the old Yale. Since it is advisable to cut the quota for admissions, the solution seems to lie in the reorganization of Yale College on the plan of the English universities on the basis of the old system of class distinctions, or by a scheme which combine both principles...
...Before the Chamber of Deputies, last week, was a bill based on the assumption that when certain French oil properties in Mosul are developed the Republic will be able to exist on its own oil. The new bill proposes to assign a "quota" to firms importing foreign oil, restricting them hereafter to a turnover not larger than their average annual import business during the three years prior...