Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ultraviolet photography is revealing so many more nebulae near the uttermost range of the telescope that astronomers may have to reconsider their theories as to the size of the star-filled universe. Ordinary photographs showed fewer & fewer nebulae out near the 500,000,000 light-year limit of range, and some scientists assumed that this might be the approximate radius beyond which lay infinite emptiness. But Astronomers Albert Edward Whitford and Joel Stebbins of the University of Wisconsin knew that the far-off nebulae were reddish (a spectroscopic phenomenon which makes many astronomers believe outer galaxies are moving away from...
...debt limit, set by Congress earlier this year, is only $65,000,000,000. Within the next few months Mr. Morgenthau will have to borrow several more billions. Before another year is out, Mr. Morgenthau will probably have to ask Congress to up the limit again...
...weeks after he plumped for a 6% profits limit, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau last week handed U.S. speculators and investors a $50,600,000 profit within an hour-and was glad...
Free Frenchmen all over the world will be supported to the limit in their fight against Nazism by the Harvard unit of "France Forever" which has just formed to gain college backing for the national movement...
Another time limit weighs upon Tokyo. It is set by U.S. aid to China, trickling now, rising steadily, destined to rise & rise. Before that stream of aid becomes a torrent the Japanese must crush Chiang Kai-shek's armies or face defeat...