Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unpopular were carefully written into the United States Constitution, the federal courts have always been stumbling blocks to temporary majorities. Whether the contemporary crusade has been liberal or conservative, courts have usually fulfilled their obligation to remind the public that no cause, no matter how popular, can exceed the limits of the Constitution...
...midyear changed his mind, now saw a good second half. A touch of spring in the air gave retail sales a push to an estimated 3% to 7% higher than a year ago. The SEC estimated that, on the basis of a new survey, business expansion in 1953 would exceed the record $26.5 billion spent last year. And the Federal Reserve Board's latest survey of consumers' spending plans indicated that U.S. customers this year plan to outspend 1952 on autos, electrical appliances and houses. Thus encouraged, and with plenty of steel, automakers boosted their week...
...first man-carrying plane to exceed the speed of sound (TIME, June 21, 1948). Now in the Smithsonian Institution, the chunky (34½ ft. long, 28 ft. wingspread) ship was built by Bell Aircraft Corp., had a rocket motor with 6,000 lbs. of thrust and was designed to fly more than 1,000 m.p.h...
Grants given seniors cannot exceed $800 except in unusual situations, since the Annex prefers to give younger classes priority, Jordan added...
...production line. It was the 12,571st Corsair, a descendant of the planes once flown from Guadalcanal to the Inland Sea by such hot pilots as Marine "Pappy" Boyington and the Navy's "Ike" Kepford. Corsairs, with their inverted gull wings, were the first fighters to exceed 400 m.p.h.; during World War II they splashed a total of 2,140 enemy aircraft, v. a Corsair loss of but 189. With its Corsair mission completed, Chance Vought will now concentrate most of its production on the jet-powered F-7U Cutlass, a Navy fighter in the 650-m.p.h. class...