Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sterilization Bonus. Vogt suggests that the U.S. should help no country with food or anything else unless it first agrees to limit its birth rate. One method he favors: a bonus to males who allow themselves to be sterilized...
...prize (a strictly functional Leghorn pullet) went to Tom Currie of Southport, Conn, for his "man"-a creature with a flat, streamlined head atop a flying-saucer body. He had an aspirin tablet for an eye and a built-in cigarette, but "no ears-radar perception; no stomach -no limit on drinking; no legs-walking, what's that?" Second prize (an egg) was won by Julian Everett of Manhattan for a cork-calved, swivel-eared robot whose right hand was a "clam digger for getting," his left a "built-in money box for keeping." Among the items of special...
...turned down by an Anglican church in Jaffa (because the bride was not a Christian) and by a Greek Orthodox priest (who considered both outside his flock). A ship captain said he could perform the ceremony by taking them on a special trip beyond the three-mile limit. But when he quoted his price, the couple decided it would be cheaper to fly to Europe and be married there...
...limit, previously unannounced, went into effect about 6 p.m. after the first 25 guests had filed past the check-in desk. Swarms of evening Adams visitors were surprised by the ruling, which forced them to leave the House and return to their own dining halls...
Theodore Greene (professor of philosophy at Yale): "May I make a comment? . . . Miro expresses a kind of infantilism . . . I happen to like children. But I think there is a limit to how much time I want to spend in conversation with a one-year...