Word: restricting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no doubt that the benefits derived from tutorial work vary widely and if some easy administrative test of selection could be devised which would restrict the tutorial privilege to those who would make the best use of it, I should favor its adoption. The movement now under way for a "pass degree" with optional tutorial work, however, seems to me exceedingly dangerous, partly because it involves a lowered standard for the unawakened and lazy, but, more important still, because it strikes directly at what I consider the great merit of the present system: the discovery of latent powers...
...Perry, Iowa, approximately the same prices prevailed at the foreclosure on George Rosander's place when 1,500 of his friends collected to restrict the bidding. The holder of a $2,500 mortgage collected precisely...
...Brooklyn's Darwin Rush James. Under its control private corporations were set up to: i) Build model apartments renting for $11 per room per month ($12.50 in congested Manhattan); 2) borrow 663% of their cost on mortgage bonds; 3) pay 5% or less on their borrowings; 4) restrict dividends to 6%; 5) apply surplus to reduce rentals. Since 1927 eleven housing projects around New York City have been completed under the Board, representing 1,918 apartments costing $10,161.074. Four of them were co-operative undertakings by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Ten of them are making money...
...good soil of Burgundy, are pulled rudely out of their shells, boiled, dressed with garlic, stuffed back and served up sizzling hot on tin plates to be downed between gulps of rich red Chambertin. So delectable is the escargot that the best breeds of him are becoming scarce. To restrict snail-plucking, the Department Council of the Cote d'Or met lately at Dijon, soon found itself embroiled in a hopeless argument over the question of what is a snail...
...course is to become clear and unified they must cooperate, either by regular meetings to discuss their problems and work, or by some adherence to a general outline of the basic material of the course. In the past they have held meetings only to discuss examinations. This would restrict to some degree their individual work, but it would go far to dispel the inky murk which often settles over the novices who take the course...