Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile more than the quota for Third Liberty Bonds, which the Treasury had offered to buy from the public for its sinking fund, had been subscribed, and the Treasury decided to take some $120,000,000 worth instead of the $100,000,000 for which it had asked...
...should have about it nothing that is either formidable or forbidding. Its sovereign importance is that it shall exist in perpetuity to receive annually whatever a graduate may care to give. The very idea of unrestricted funds precludes any suggestion of fixed amount: There is, and will be, no quota. If the number of men contributing is satisfactorily large, the aggregate amount contributed will undoubtedly be satisfactory also. The first consideration is that every man who can shall give something...
...half of the $3000 goal set for the University in the Student Friendship drive has been turned in by the collectors, and unless the full quota is reached by tomorrow night, the drive will be extended to the middle of next week, it was announced last night by H. S. Woodbridge '27, chairman of the drive committee...
...asked to apply at 1.15 o'clock today at the offices of the Dramatic Club, 69 Mount Auburn Street. Due to the difficulty of handling the many applicants during theatre hours, Mr. Bell of the Repertory Theatre Company turned over to the Dramatic Club the privilege of picking a quota of "supers" from the University
Deputy Jacques Louis Dumesnil secured the only really hearty laugh of the week by shouting: "What difference does all this talk about taxes make? In England a gentleman who does not pay his quota to the State is looked down upon and his former friends will not shake his hand. In France we never rest until the man who dodges has told us how he does...