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Word: limiteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right to waste his opportunities at Harvard, provided only he pays his tuition, and keeps up to the minimum standards. Admitted that for every dollar paid to the University, a man gets direct benefits worth many times that, but do not the minimum requirements in fact limit the responsibilities of everyone's virtual scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROBLEM CHILDREN | 3/20/1936 | See Source »

...power. Cause is an area of excessively compressed air, built up by the airfoil's passage. Same phenomenon occurs at the tips of propellers. Only chance for speed greater than 575 m.p.h. is a mechanism for changing wing and propeller shape when the plane reaches Dr. Lewis' limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Dr. Lewis' Limit | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Like all institutions that make any attempt to limit their own bigness, the fields of concentration, with their exclusive-sounding quotas, have been criticized for placing obstacles in the way of would-be concentrators. The cause for this complaint is purely superficial, and the limitation of the field has so far failed to be in any way a barrier to the freedom so necessary in choosing a field of concentration. Friendly influences and external pressure being what they are, the university often recognizes an obviously bad choice when it sees one, and in such cases the student is gently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COME AND GET IT | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...over thirty thousand rentals last year, exactly two collisions took place. Neither had results more serious than a shakeup. Putting this rule into effect would be like enforcing the old 18 mile an hour speed limit for sutos: modern conditions make it ridiculus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two-Gun Apted Slaps Down on Bicyclists as 8-Year-Old Lowell-Flattener Rule Is Revived | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

...looking ahead to their objective match of the year with Yale on Saturday in New Haven. Since Yale downed Princeton six to one, and the Crimson defeated the Tigers 7-0 in a very close match, the contest on Saturday is expected to test the racqueteers to the limit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Downs Crimson Clubmen by Score of 5 to 1 | 2/12/1936 | See Source »

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