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Word: limited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: It is reassuring to learn that you plan to limit the size of TIME to 80 pages. As an advertiser, I am equally enthusiastic over your decision. A larger paper would mean a less intimate one and, therefore, a less valuable one from the advertising standpoint. EDWARD P. BAILEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...FLACK Kaletziki, Flack &Howard, Inc. Syracuse, N. Y. Vice President Flack errs. Investigations regularly show that more than 80% of TIME-readers are cover-to-cover readers. - ED. Sirs: As a weekly cover-to-cover reader of TIME, I am very glad indeed to see that you propose to limit the number of pages. You can give your advertisers more display in a limited number of pages than you can give them in double spreads in a magazine made up of innumerable pages. F. E. BARBOUR Beech-Nut Packing Co. Canajoharie, N.Y. Sirs: Being a cover-to-cover reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...recondition canvas and repay owners for lost fish. Thousands lined the shore to watch the stanch, full-rigged craft course twice around an 18-mile triangle into the harbor. In the first two races, gentle inshore winds were insufficient to drive the schooners to the finish within the time limit. In the third, little Portuguese-American Progress gradually overcame Capt. Ben Pine's big Arthur D. Story until on the last lap, tacking along inshore close to the Cape Ann rocks, it skirmished into the lead to win. The losers, unwilling to give up another day's fishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cream Sauce Deferred | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

President Hoover is keeping only 1,500 Marines in Nicaragua-as mentors for the newly established native National Guard. Recently a group of leading editors in Managua, Nicaraguan Capital, manifestoed: "We have reached the limit. On the one side the Marines and on the other the National Guard . . . are committing disgraceful acts left and right. . . . We are complying with our inalienable duty as editors and patriotic Nicaraguans in pointing out the danger and calling the attention of the Nicaraguan Government ... to the need of enforcing order and decency in the troops who command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Prosperous Sandino | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Ohio, propelling cylindrical pellets about checkered rectangles, making them sally, mingle, jump one another, then inching them ignominiously back to safe corners. Officials fumed impotently. For 20 hrs. four of the most potent contenders in the National Checker Championship piddled thus, played 32 drawn games. Came official threats to limit to 20 the number of games two players could draw without penalty. In the finals, after six draws, Asa Long of Toledo, Ohio, conquered 16-time drawer Louis C. Ginsberg of Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Piddlers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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