Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mapping the Unseen. Land never seen by human eyes is now being mapped by its photographed reflection on the moisture-filled sky above, said Geographer Paul Siple. Flying over an unexplored coast, the scientists' plane reached the limit of its range, was forced to turn back from an inviting horizon. Distant bays and points, they noticed, were reflected in the sky. And because the reflecting moisture layers were higher than the plane, they clearly outlined the coastal pattern well below the flyers' horizon. Though observed before in polar regions, this phenomenon has never until now been trusted...
Foreign Minister Togo bluntly declared that "there is naturally a limit to our conciliatory attitude. . . . There is no necessity of spending much time on negotiations hereafter...
...foot yacht The Isabel than when he sits in his shore office in Manila's Mars-man Building, overlooking the Bay where most of his fleet anchors. According to precedent, he should have bowed out of the Navy five months ago. But when he reached the age limit of 64, Franklin Roosevelt decided that Tommy Hart was indispensable in the East...
Their first opportunity to come out for the Crimson, Freshmen alone may compete for the news and photographic boards. The business competition will be open to both Freshmen and Sophomores, while the editorial board will limit its competition to Sophomores. At the same time the editorial board will conduct separate competitions, open to Sophomores and Juniors, for art and music critics...
...minute they're over, they congregate in huge Minnesota parties in Leverett or Lowell. They serve themselves drinks which taste like a cross between Minneapolis grain whiskey and Swedish aquavit. They turn the radio on to the Minnesota game and raise the volume to the limit. Then the whole bunch of them sit around yelling "ski-yu-mah" and singing "Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee" until the Golden Horde has trounced another poor opponent. Woe to the hapless Nebraskan or Indianan who stumbles on their festivities and refuses to raise his voice in praise of the Gophers...