Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million boost for 885,000 civil-service employees-an average of $125 each (but trimming the pay limit of $15,000 set by the House...
...exile at La Croisette, near Cannes, Bao Dai lived quietly in a 20-room chateau, occasionally visited a bar (drinking only coffee) and gambled modestly at the Cannes casino, 10,000 francs ($30) being his limit for one night. Early this year, the French government sent bluff Leon Pignon, French high commissioner for Indo-China, to persuade His Majesty that he must return to his country as "chief of state...
...Founder Wykeham, in fact, specified that his students should be "pauperes et indigentes," and set an upper limit of ?3 6s. 8d. on their annual income, but few real "pauperes" ever got in. For centuries, most of the appointments have gone to the sons of influential fathers. *Another group, the "Founder's Kin," long had special privileges, e.g., they could stay in Winchester until they were 25, but ultimately they became so numerous that the privileges were abolished. Unofficial test of a boy's relationship to Founder Wykeham: crashing a wooden platter down on his head...
...something with four wheels that's got something inside." The hot rod rolls out of a backyard garage a bumperless, fenderless, hoodless, roofless, uncomfortable concoction which runs so fast its driver must chug and jerk through town in low or second gear to stay under the speed limit...
...T.U.C., like unions everywhere, had been built up as a fighting force to win what its members wanted. Under a capitalistic sytem, one of unionism's functions was to limit the power of owners and managers. Had it a similar function in the socialist (or socialoid) society which unionism had created? T.U.C. delegates last week fumbled around for answers, found none...