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Word: limiteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When men derive no pleasure form their work and have no desire to put their soul into it, they work for money alone as a means to buy their pleasures and thus there is no limit to the money they want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'West going to dogs,' Say Sorokin, Wellock; 'Not So,' Rebuts Aiken | 12/4/1946 | See Source »

...Economics A, the Department of Economics is tottering under the weight of an unprecedented post-war popularity. To meet this avalanche, the Department has twenty professors and assistant professors, six annual instructors, and twenty-four full and part time teaching fellows. The Economics faculty has been enlarged to the limits of availability, but besides increased teaching burdens, staff time formerly devoted to tutorial has been sapped away by other interests, such as General Education and Area Studies. The financial conundrum is not lacking either: the pressure of steadily increasing costs throughout the University threatens a limit to the size...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marginal Utility | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

Although in theory every possessor of an H.A.A. booklet will be entitled to a seat for every game at the Indoor Athletic Building, Bingham pointed out that the limit for any one game would be 1800 admissions, because of the state fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rental of Boston Garden to Solve Overcrowding at Main Court Tilts | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

...mission. Petulantly Hoxha refused, instead protested to the U.N. (which has denied Albania membership) that the U.S. request was an "abridgement of Albanian sovereignty." The U.S. Government disdained to answer the protest, solved the problem simply by sending the destroyers to the edge of the three-mile limit. The mission and its baggage were ferried out by small boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Truculence | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...supersonic speed, Whittle was not as optimistic. The obstacle of the shock wave (which racks a plane as it nears the speed of sound) is still unlicked. Swept-back wings, he felt, would push the speed limit upward, but they could push no plane across the sound threshold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jeticicm | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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