Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legal codes of Egypt ,† she earns some $25,000 a year. What Mme. Garzouzi said last week she said in perfect English. But because her subject was the proposed Anglo-Egyptian Treaty (TIME, Aug. 19), which Prime Minister MacDonald's British Labor Government offers as the "extreme limit" to which it can grant Egyptian independence, hypothetically granted in 1922, Mme. Garzouzi's voice shivered and swelled. Said she: "Never trust an Englishman's promise or agreements where British interests are at stake. . . . Who, knowing them, would be so foolish as to take them seriously...
...higher a full-block building, up to 63 stories on $200-land and 75 stories on $400-land, the greater the percentage of return on investment in such a structure. The limit of profits is 10.25%. Beyond such heights, the investment returns diminish until, on $200-land, a 131-story building would return zero. A 132-story skyscraper would develop a loss...
...school was originally planned to accommodate 1,000 men for 900 of whom dormitory accommodations were provided, while 100 were expected to live outside the limits of the school. Only a small proportion of this number was admitted the first year of the school's functioning, and during the past ten years the number of applicants each year has rapidly increased and the limit of enrollment correspondingly raised until last year when the capacity was finally reached. In previous years, a large number of College and Law School students have been accommodated in Business School dormitories. This year...
Because of the fact that the limit has finally been reached, in the future, a change will be made in the method of admission. Previously if a man's entrance papers were in good condition, his application was accepted at once. This year, however, no applications for next fall will be accepted until March, when notifications of success or failure to gain admission will be sent to all applicants up to that date. In case the quota is not then filled, applications will continue to be received until the full number of desirable students is obtained...
...chance there to make of himself something more than a mere strong point? Or may he not, perhaps painfully to be sure, gain a familiarity with the average so that he may be able to make and keep contacts with society and normal life? And must a college limit itself only to averages, or will both be out of the ordinary and the average in many cases be mutually benefited by contact? John Bliss...