Word: limit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spanish three-mile limit offers wide loopholes unless boldly plugged...
...been the case, a British Cabinet Minister declares that England's frontier is the Rhine, this is really the limit both as regards stupidity and unbearable arrogance. It could hardly be more stupid to declare that Germany's frontier is the Mississippi,* or the Amazon, or the Yangtze...
This spring, platinum-polled Leopold Stokowski toured the U. S., gave auditions to 500 aspirants to the "All American Youth Orchestra" which he plans to take to South America. Although he had set age limits (15 to 25), he stretched the limit after hearing, in Detroit, a 14-year-old Negro trumpeter named William B. Horner Jr. Last week, Trumpeter Horner's name was on the list of 84 winners announced by Conductor Stokowski in Manhattan. The other players, although they came from all over the U. S., were by no means all young, or cornfed, or self-taught...
...reserved for kedgeree, a dish of flaked white fish, rice, hardboiled eggs. He is a cheese connoisseur, but likes ice cream to the point of second helpings. He honestly likes hot dogs. One Scotch highball at teatime is his usual ration, but on a night out he ups that limit: often at banquets the flower vases before his place conceal as many as four Old-Fashioneds, which he downs before one can say "Jack Garner...
...expected deficit for fiscal 1941 stood at $3,703,000,000. This prospect in itself was nothing new. But, said Mr. Morgenthau, the U. S. Treasury as of last week could borrow only $1,973,000,000 more without cracking the $45,000,000,000 debt limit. In consequence the Secretary, Muley Doughton and Pat Harrison asked Congress to up the limit to $48,000,000,000, set aside the new taxes specifically to pay off the additional debt. Congress pliantly prepared to do so. But Congress well knew that provision for a mere $3,000,000,000 more debt...