Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civic receptions, and toasts in vin d'honneur. Jumbo seemed to enjoy the march, placidly munching apples, dancing and playing the mouth organ for fascinated audiences, while trudging along at a steady pace of about 3 m.p.h. After a skittish first two nights, she got her normal nightly quota of four hours' sleep...
...four-day effort last week included the usual quota of afternoon and evening concerts at the city-owned ball field, plus a series of "breakfast seminars" conducted by scholars on such hip topics as "The Role of Jazz in American Culture." New to the scene was a pair of Russian wolfhounds representing Wolfschmidt vodka, and a "fashion-jazz spectacular" titled "Newport Is a Lark" and featuring such jazz-inspired fashions as a Bop Period "nasturtium-colored velveteen jacket lined and piped with hot pink shantung." Musical novelty: the "first authentic American jazz ballet," a 22-minute retelling of the Harlequin...
Scattered over 1,254,000 sq. mi. of Arctic waste, Canada's 11,000 Eskimos for centuries have spoken a complicated language. The Eskimo can pack whole sentences into a guttural syllable or two, commands 10,000 to 15,000 words-a scholar's quota-just for everyday discourse. He gives some of his verbs hundreds of forms, one for each subtle shade of meaning.* But the Eskimo has never printed the words he speaks. Last week, from the Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources in Ottawa came the first serious effort to put the Eskimo...
West. Britain now has a favorite balance of payments with the U.S. for the first time since 1865 (April exports to the U.S. totaled a record $100.8 million). London accordingly relaxed quota restrictions on dollar imports from the U.S. and Canada, leaving 90% of Britain's imports from the U.S. free of controls. The change has been expectable since last December, when Britain made the pound more freely convertible into dollars...
Advance gifts and miscellaneous donations, originally expected to provide most of the Program money, are short of the proposed goals. Only 71.9 percent of the $50 million quota has been supplied by advance gifts. Miscellaneous contributions, with a goal of $20.5 million, have reached only 65.2 per cent of the total...