Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three new examples of Hollywood's staple commodity, the horse opera, all filmed in color, contain the full quota of galloping and gunplay...
...suddenly lost in her eyes): The night inspired me to overfulfill my quota by a higher and still higher percentage...
...people-Sam Weller, Sairey Gamp, Bill Sikes, Barkis, Mrs. Gummidge, for a few-though they have been in a century's deep freeze, are still succulent with life. Though literary immortality is as chancy as other sorts, it looks as though Joyce Cary has already added his quota to fiction's Valhalla: Gulley Jimson, Sara Monday. Mister Johnson, Tom Wilcher. Last week he added two more: Chester Nimmo and Nina...
Grimbel received a directive from Air University Headquarters last, summer which cut the Yale quota from 225 to 158. He wrote the 230 men enrolled in the course, informing them of the cut and requesting that those who wished to drop out inform him personally...
Three boards were established to arbitrate the selection. They proved to be unnecessary, however, when the new order came through and enough men dropped out to meet the quota...