Word: limits
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...produce a state of mind which accepts this kind of editorial thinking from the Philadelphia Inquirer: "As the task of probing for the truth of charges of Communist infiltration and influence in the State Department proceeds, it becomes increasingly apparent that strict legal technicalities cannot be allowed unduly to limit this vitally important inquiry . . . We hope that neither he (Lattimore) nor his counsel will fall back upon mere objection to (Budenz's charges) as hearsay evidence...
...radio program asks contestants to represent something or someone, then answer questions pertinent to the personality of that object. Wearing a pair of book covers and a monacle, Colman appears as the Encyclopedia Britannica. He answers his first questions and wins the program's limit, $160. Rather than take the money he asks for a chance to appear again risking the money in the double or nothing procedure...
Ostracized. He lied about his age (he was almost 27-two years over the limit for airmen), took 17 days of training, soloed-grandly tearing off the whole undercarriage of his plane on his return-and got a lieutenant's commission and a pilot's wings. The dashing young college men of the 94th Aero Squadron, to which he was assigned, were not pleased. Rickenbacker was a celebrity and proud of it; he knew engines and said so; he was tough, uncouth, domineering, profane, full of advice and often oil-stained. He was pointedly ignored...
However, why did you limit yourselves to mention only the crew? Both the varsity and freshman baseball squads --50 men--remained in Cambridge for practice and also had to pay for own meals...
...Student Council committee and the Dean's Office want to substitute a system of complicated rules which would, if actually put into effect, seriously limit the freedom of the College's extra-curricular activities. Thus the proposed rules declare that organizations must be regulated so that "the relations of the University with the community are maintained." Hence "the Dean's Office must be enabled to keep track of what the various organizations are doing" so that it can prevent any acts by an organization that "would have particularly undesirable consequences. . . or which bring or threaten to bring discredit upon...