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Word: limiteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mechanical pumps have a certain limit beyond which they cannot decrease the vacuum chamber pressure any further. So Dr. Hickman has designed a sort of chemical pump which goes to work after the mechanical pump has done its best. A spray of oil vapor is shot in one side of the chamber, out the other. Some of the gas molecules roaming inside are struck by the oil particles, adhere to them, are thus escorted outside through the oil vapor exit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vacuum Ecstasy | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...hell did you want my soul for how do you know I have a soul who says so nobody says so but you the devil and everybody knows the devil is all lies." Arrested for driving 37 m.p.h. along London's Victoria Embankment (7 m.p.h. over the speed limit), Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston, holder of the world's landspeed record (357.5 m.p.h.), with wicked cunning pleaded that he had "only just returned from America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...relatively modest three-mega-cycle sprawl. The DuMont transmitting system is said to throw its pictures well beyond television's paltry 50-mile effective range. This it has done in the laboratory through its ability to use longer wave lengths which are effective beyond the horizonwide limit of television's usual ultrashort waves, hopes to reproduce the stretch in actual telecasting. And for DuMont receivers it is claimed that no likely changes in television standards can make their newest designs obsolete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Screen Meets Screen | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...such common products as gasoline and milk. In the oil industry to take one example, refiners are deprived of their market because of the belief induced by great expenditure that good gasoline is sold only under particular trade names. . . ." Admitting that present anti-trust laws are inadequate to limit advertising. Trust Buster Arnold nevertheless argued that "the purpose of the anti-trust laws will be furthered if advertising is limited to its proper function of building up consumption. . . ." How this limitation was effected in the Ford and Chrysler cases was readily apparent in Mr. Arnold's announcement that "antitrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Important Precedents | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Furthermore, it is claimed, cars and trucks bearing hostile signs were allowed to park nearer to the polls than the legal 150 foot limit without interference from the police, and appeals to the constabulary went unheeded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plan E Committee Plans to File Papers for Referendum Recount | 11/10/1938 | See Source »

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