Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edwin Powell Hubble of Mt. Wilson Observatory has at his disposal a 100-inch reflector, world's largest telescope, and with it he takes longer looks into space than any other man. Before the National Academy of Sciences last spring, Astronomer Hubble put the limit of the visible universe at 300,000,000 light-years from Earth (TIME, May 7).* Later he extended the limit to 400,000,000 lightyears. Last week he reported catching on a high-speed photographic plate the faint impression of a galaxy of stars 500,000,000 light-years away...
Thus after some secret squabbling it was agreed recently to restore the Cunard age limit to 63. White Star masters still retire at 60, but they are better paid, and have no kick. Some three years from now Commodore Sir Edgar Britten will go to the modest head office of the Cunard Line at Pier's Head, Liverpool. There, with appropriate ceremony, he will hand over the burgee personally to his successor. That, according to indications last week, will be the Olympic's Captain Peel...
...tentative boundary of the "science" is set as the "state," as the "all-pervasive instrumentally for social control," but he wisely extends this limit in his final chapter by admitting that many other social institutions manifest conditions of social control not unlike those of the state. Clearly, this is true. The "state" is a legal concept associated with comparatively modern political institutions in the west. "Politics" not only belong to universal history, but also are involved in human relations which have little or nothing to do with the structure of government. What, then, is the essential, pervasive, irreducible characteristic...
There is a strong movement on foot among the leading theological seminaries in the country to bring pressure to bear upon the various Protestant denominations to limit and ultimately to abandon altogether the habit of ordaining uneducated men to the ministry. Harvard Divinity School is backing up the Conference of Seminaries in an attempt to raise the general standard of the profession of the ministry
...Circulation, 50,000. Last week buyers of Dr. Boone's The Nudist from Manhattan newsstands were obliged to secure the February issue clandestinely. Charged with obscenity, the publishers had to limit circulation until New York courts decide whether The Nudist's modestly retouched pictures of naked men, women and children violate the law. Complained Dr. Boone last week: "We might tone down the illustrations. We do not desire to break the law. But we feel we should have the right and the privilege to publish unless it can be proved that Nudism is provocative of immorality...