Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lurking in the upper right corner of the constellation Hercules last month was a nameless 14th-magnitude star far below the limit of naked-eye visibility. Fortnight ago a British amateur saw it in a violent eruption which, because of the star's distance, must have occurred about 1,500 years ago. It was throwing off two shells of tremendously hot gas at 1,000,000 m.p.h. By last week it had jumped 13 magnitudes to the first, acquired a name, Nova Herculis 1934. Its radiation had increased 200,000 times; it was among the twelve brightest stars...
...East; her economic necessity of concentrating in small rather than large ships; her fear of heavy American and British navies in the Pacific as an actual threat to herself, and her determination not to brook the superiority complex of the Occidentals in their efforts to limit the size of her armaments...
...watch, according to most recent data. It contains approximately 200,000,000,000 stars as determined by their gravitational attractions, but only about one billion are within range of the most advanced photographically instruments of today; while within a radius of 6,000 light years, which is the limit of the actual count now in progress, there are only about...
...Pierce, Rumford Professor of Physics and Director of the Laboratory. Assisted by Dr. Noyes, and Miss Prouty, Professor Pierce has been engaged in the investigation of supersonic noises in nature, or those noises made by small animals and insects at frequencies over 18,000 per second, the upper limit of the human...
...very long ago, you said yourself, Mr. Hopkins, that you recognized the fundamental principle that there is a limit to which the state can go in relief administration, and that at that point "private" charity must take up the burden. Any other solution, you claimed, would be completely un-American. Is it not slightly inconsistent to charge the very institutions that have of their own initiative assumed a share of the burden with snobbish evasion of their stint? --Yale Daily News...