Word: limit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expand, perhaps not even maintain, its present food production. The scientists TIME consulted (in the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering, and the U.S. Soil Conservation Service) disagree strongly with this thesis. TIME did not deny that the human species is theoretically able to multiply without limit. Neither is there any theoretical limit to the food supply. But TIME pointed out that when people reach high standards of living and education, they tend to balance their increase with their means of subsistence...
...provincial finance ministers, was to buy outside the dollar circuit, as it was already doing in the case of newsprint (from Finland) and of oil (from the sterling area). As for the U.S., it was buying Argentine products at the rate of $200 million a year; henceforth Argentina would limit its buying of U.S. goods to that same figure. Cried Miranda: "We are going to play our role of buyer to the hilt...
...California's Governor Earl Warren was back at his desk in Sacramento after a brief vacation in Williams, Calif. In a couple of hours, he had managed to bag the two-bird limit of pheasant, and pose for a hearty sportsman picture...
...Frenkel, author of a book on atomic energy, was accused of "promulgating the quantum theory in the disguise of Marxist dialectical robes." Professors M. Markov and V. Svidersky were denounced for "idealistic and formalistic" conceptions in atomic theory which are "nothing but conceptions admitting the existence of a limit to knowledge...
Barring injuries, only 14 men, or the legal limit established in college hockey, will play against the Engineers. On Wednesday, by agreement of both sides, the limit was abandoned, and the respective coaches were able to look over several more men under game conditions...