Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agitation, the boycott, the philippies and counter philippies, all smack much more of Washington Square than Williamstown. With its lavish Colonial fraternity houses, its large quota of good cars, and its time-honored indifference, which runs even that of Harvard a close race, Williams can hardly be called a hotbed of radicalism. If the crusade against the Hearst newsreel was successful it is because an increasingly large number of American undergraduates are becoming disgusted with the philosophy of San Simeon. At Williams, as at other universities, they make their wishes felt in the face of a good-naturedly indifferent majority...
Purpose: to hear the U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, frail, sensitive Robert Worth Bingham, ask the Conference to face the fact that its 1933 agreements fixing wheat export quotas and laying down internal wheat acreage restrictions have proved thoroughly unworkable. Ambassador Bingham, whose most important activities in London have had to do with wheat, was expected to urge that the Conference's quota and acreage agreements be indefinitely suspended...
Every member of the Class of 1938 in good standing has been assigned to the field of concentration of his first choice, according to an announcement yesterday by the Munn Concentration Quota Committee...
...outward signs of that change are marked. The Senator was loud, rough, profane. He still is, by nature, but nowadays as he passes through the corridors of the Senate Office Building, he tries to be charming and affable to all comers. He used to run around to his quota of parties, but nowadays he has little time for such gay amusement. Though he has not yet become a teetotaler, he is no longer the Huey Long of the Sands Point washroom. This change is not reform; it is ambition, guided by a keen sense of self-advantage. Senator Long...
Hypotheses have been advanced attributing the extraordinary number of Kansas meteorites to some twist of gravitational or magnetic attraction. Expert Nininger chuckles at such notions, believes that Kansas has received no more than a normal quota of falls, of which an unusually high proportion has come to the notice of Science. Reasons...