Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edwin Hubble delivered the first three of eight endowed lectures on the present state of nebular knowledge, free to Yale students and townsfolk. He wasted no time whizzing his hearers past the solar system, past the local star cluster, past the local star galaxy (the Milky Way) to the limits of the known universe. Dr. Hubble's longest looks into space have disclosed star-swarms 500,000,000 light-years away, and this appears to be the limit of Mt. Wilson's giant telescope. Thus the observable universe is a sphere about a billion light-years across. What...
...Commented Secretary of Commerce Roper himself a cotton grower: ''How would we determine the amount of cotton a nation might have from us? Would we be governed by the average exports to that nation over a five-year period, or limit the amount to actual spindle requirements...
...basis of (1) scholastic and literary abilities, (2) moral qualities, (3) force of character and leadership, and (4) physical vigor. Since the committee is looking for men who will excel in some particular field, intellect and character will receive more emphasis than physical vigor, which does not limit the field to Varsity athletes...
From the point of view of officialdom; the University has spent $40,000 in rehabilitating Dudley Hall. What theory of economics makes them limit the clientele that will make their investment a paying proposition...
...ones insured, but upon a bank's total deposits. That provision works to the advantage of small institutions most of whose deposits are in small accounts, and to the disadvantage of big banks, only a fraction of whose large corporate and business deposits are covered by the $5,000 limit. But having signed & sealed a truce with President Roosevelt last autumn, the bankers have discreetly bowed to a New Deal measure which many of them detest...