Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less than a generation ago Simon Newcomb, one of America's foremost mathematical astronomers, estimated the diameter of the Galactic System to be not less than 7000 light years and later ventured to state that as an outside limit it could not likely exceed 20,000 light years. Dr. Shapley's researches have developed newer methods of determining stellar distances which leads him to the conclusion that the real dimensions of the Milky Way must exceed Newcomb's earlier estimate nearly fifty fold. Recent investigations in physics will have a very important bearing on certain cosmic problems. These swiftly changing...
...hammer-thrower, Brown showed remarkable development under the tutelage of field event coach E. L. Farrell, and by the end of the spring season was recognized as one of the leading weight men in the country. At the beginning of the season 140 feet was his limit, but he increased this distance to 146 feet in the Princeton meet, 149 in the Intercollegiates, and in the Cambridge-Oxford-Harvard-Yale meet he tossed the hammer 159 feet, easily beating Nokes, the Oxford star, and bettering his own previous record by over ten feet...
Concerning securing regular employment, Dean Donham said, the Business School backs to the limit men who are above the average in their class. But last year there was such a demand all over the country for men in the upper third of the class that the men in this division had no difficulty in securing positions suited to them...
Where does the remedy lie? The college office cannot limit all courses to fifty. History 1 and Economics A will be big as long as they exist. Where there are sections, inexperienced section men and unequal cales of marking allow many barely...
...candidates from the classes of 1924 and 1925 are needed. Men who report at Grays 12 at 1.05 today will be under no disadvantage in the competition. For Sophomores, the contest for the position of second assistant manager will last till about Christmas, while six weeks will be the limit of the competition...