Word: limit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...documented reports, filed with the proper authorities, contrast strikingly with the ill-founded alarums filling Dies' daily dish to the press boys. If Congress could find a man closer to the calibre of LaFollette to run the committee tracking down saboteurs, and if it would at the same time limit that committee's work to points of genuine danger, something more satisfactory than truths everyone knows and half-truths no one wants should result...
...Mexican press blew up. Tampico's El Mundo admitted the action had taken place outside the internationally recognized three-mile limit, but insisted on Mexico's self-established claims to sovereignty as far out as nine miles. Three Mexican gunboats were on duty near by at the time. U. S. interference with a Mexican ship, in Mexican waters, in the presence of Mexican warships was a grave matter. The time had come for a showdown on how far sensitive Latin Americans would sacrifice their pride for the sake of security measures they had helped establish...
...made this course on Emerson and Carlyle so popular through his lively lectures that it was found necessary to limit it to 300 students. Except for his famous lecture on Byron, he was never known to repeat a lecture, and he always left ten minutes at the end of the hour for a question period...
...Much? Republican and Democratic National Committees closed their campaign books with bland, canary-swallowing announcements that their expenditures had been kept tidily within the $3,000,000 limit set by the Hatch Act. Their combined outlay for the 1936 campaign had been $14,544,000. To those who considered 1940's tremendous activity, its hours of high-cost radio time, its scores of expensive full-page advertisements in hundreds of newspapers, it was obvious that others besides the national committees had spent a lot of money. It looked like one of the most expensive U. S. campaigns ever...
...than 52 knots (60 m.p.h.). Lieut. Caldwell could also report that when the PTs were under high speed all day, their crews were pounded unmercifully; all they wanted, once back at the Yard, was to crawl into a bunk. The Navy had made no mistake in setting the age limit of PT crews at 35, in speedily washing out of PT service any man who got seasick in heavy going...