Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said his delegation would recommend to the United States Congress that this nation pay 33 percent for 1947 on a temporary basis but that the U.S. felt a top limit of 25 percent should be agreed upon for any one country after the world's economy has recovered from...
...remedy has been to refine the plane's lines, polish the skin. Such tricks push the speed limit upward. But they succeed at a fearful price. Above 600 m.p.h. the slightest irregularity may beckon a fatal wave out of the speeding...
...original members, Martin Girschner, 16, now temporary president, and Guenther Hoist, 15, now temporary vice president, helped with selections. Applicants were asked to fill out forms. On the basis of these forms and the way in which questions were answered, the selections were made. Membership had to be limited, but there are now about 20 more than the limit of 100 in the club...
...conjecture: his speed may have passed the dreaded limit of "compressibility" when the air streams pass the wing or control surfaces at the speed of sound (TIME, Sept. 23). A "standing sound wave" may have formed, clung like a yammering banshee, and torn the plane to shreds. Perhaps Captain De Havilland crossed that sonic threshold only to discover, in Hamlet's soaring words...
...origin of most of the culture, art, philosophy and science, both of ancient and modern times. If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance, there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity and the glory which its 300 million or 400 million people would enjoy...