Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, asking that the suit before the United States Supreme Court to annul the Federal Water Power Law be withdrawn. New York wants a monopoly on the water power developed within its boundaries (notably at Niagara Falls). Governor Pinchot suggests that Pennsylvania and other states have their quota of the Niagara power...
...bill would admit annually 2% of the number of naturalized aliens here in 1890, instead of the present quota of 3%, based on the 1910 census. It would exclude Japanese and low-caste Hindus...
...dying fires of the Polish-Lithuanian boundary dispute over Vilna do not signify that the heat is dead. An armistice agreed upon by both sides is only a lull in the hostilities that have been adding their quota to wrecking the peace equilibrium maintained with such immense difficulty in Europe...
...voting, presents itself to the rest of the college, and discloses it tastes and its character. If it goes to the polls en masse, showing a vigorous interest in its affairs, the reception will probably be favorable. If it falters on the threshold of its sixty-percent quota, it will be classified as commonplace or mediocre. But if it shows so much character as to stay away altogether, who knows? perhaps its elders will respect its individuality-and set about finding a substitute for class elections...
...necessary that considerably larger subscriptions than that be made. The committee aims to secure an average of fifty dollars from each member of the class for this five year period or ten dollars a year from each subscriber. To attain this, many men should give more than the desired quota, but those who feel that they cannot reach that amount need not hesitate to subscribe less. The interest on the invested fund will be used to defray the expenses of annual gatherings at Commencement, for reunions and for the printing of the Secretary's reports...