Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wellesley girls, for an undetermined reason, are ardent devotees of this unusual oracle, while other similar neighboring institutions have an ample quota as well. At the present time male undergraduates, especially of Harvard, have not been much attracted by this source of information, but this is no doubt an indication of the utterly care free or utterly hopeless frame of mind in which the Cambridge undergraduates exist...
...college. In some instances section men either through inefficiency or insufficient information from headquarters lagged behind the general course program to such an extent that they were forced to make unreasonable assignments during the last weeks of the term in order to make their prospective sections fulfill the quota of reading prescribed by the course...
...conspicuous example of this inefficiency was to be found in French I where in two of the six sections instructors, in making jolting last minute assignments, frankly confessed that they had previously been unaware that the work in question was to be required for the first term's quota...
...committee of bankers of whom Dr. Schacht was one. He signed the original Paris draft of the Plan, approved the articles establishing a $100,000,000 Bank for International Settlements (B. I. S.), and allowed everyone to assume that of course the Reichsbank would subscribe its allotted quota of the capital...
Thus, still firm upon "the highest moral grounds," Dr. Schacht yielded and agreed-making clear that he agreed under duress-that the Reichsbank will subscribe its B. I. S. quota. This removed the last real obstacle to complete agreement at The Hague; but throughout Germany a tempest of controversy brewed. Whereas a few weeks ago ratification of the Young Plan by the Reichstag seemed certain, correspondents of nearly all major news services now filed long despatches full of ominous doubts. Skillful Dr. Schacht had roused in the German public mind a fear that Dr. Curtius had conceded too much...