Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing is certain, there is nothing to view with alarm in the immigration statistics for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, announced last week by Secretary of Labor James J. Davis. Since the passage of the Immigration Quota Law of 1924, which assigned a definite quota to the countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, it makes little difference in the alien population of the U. S. whether or not there is a bad potato crop in Ireland or a revolution in Hungary. Immigration has become a standpat, almost mechanical phenomenon. Compare the figures for the last two years...
...world has its quota of skeptics. Some there are who would investigate more closely schools and theories of religious belief; others who are not content with the present status of our scientific speculation. At Harvard, however, they are not satisfied with tangible and concrete targets for doubt, they must have something more aerial: they examine...
...tabulated facts also indicate that the graduates of women's colleges are becoming more and more addicted to celibacy. The records for Vassar alumnae disclose an average of 0.6 children for the entire graduate body. Wellesley tops this quota with a ratio of 0.86 progeny for its former members...
...Phillips Brooks House will reopen its fall clothing drive today in an attempt to increase the insufficient harvest yielded last week. There is a greater demand upon the social service department for discarded garments than ever previously, and the failure of the first collection campaign to reach the quota has made an unprecedented situation...
...standard set of rules has been drawn up for the League games, formulating definitely the hitherto somewhat vague etiquette of Touch Football. An interesting experiment has been attempted in the time quota allowed for the contests. Twenty-five plays can be used in each period and when this number has been completed, play automatically stops. This scheme was proposed for regular football games last year but was not adopted. In the Touch Football League, the 25-play period has worked out very successfully according to M. A. Cheek...