Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, "Cobb and Speaker are going to have another big year. However, it is well to remember that there is an age limit to this game. Babe Ruth is in good condition this year, and should continue to be our biggest drawing card, and to hit his regular quota of home runs...
...this one. I think the King furnished his quota of humor with the following...
...doing Dayton druggist, in whose historic store the Scopes trial crowds spent much time and money, is president of the Bryan Memorial University Association. And in Manhattan, last week, newsgatherers discovered one of many local "drives" that are to be held to raise $5,000,000. The quota assigned to New York City was modest in proportion to its size and wealth-$100 each from only 4,000 Fundamentalists. But the Bryanites were sure the metropolis must harbor at least that many. A Brooklyn undertaker and three clergymen were the first assistants engaged by one Malcolm M. Lockhart, onetime solicitor...
...detained by officials under a technically. The Stobbs proposal purposes to deal with difficult situations by allowing the secretary of labor to grant at his discretion some of the many unused permits that remain for countries where there is no rush for admission to individuals from, countries where the quota is exhausted...
...consul in plain terms and in the presence of the applicant that in the last analysis the matter was up to him and he might refuse at season regardless of evidence submitted to him. He added that their policy was to refuse all applications for entrance outside the quota, and to make only rare exceptions...