Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...applaud the innovation in British recording engineering (Crimson, Sept. 25) extending the upper limit of recording frequencies to "14,000 kilo-cycles." We congratulate, you on your use of the words "hush-hush" in this connection, since the upper limit of human hearing is generally conceded to be roughly 20 kilocycles...
...what authority does the current Council limit the right to referendum to those demon reformers who can collect 500 names on a petition? By what right does it limit the powers of proposing and ratifying amendments to its own membership? Merely because 17 members of a Student Council guessed that these provisos were equitable ten years ago? Even then they were not convinced. Reports claim that these back-room sessions were "smoke-filled and heated." But while the document lay on a table in Phillips Brooks House for thirty days, waiting for someone to raise an objection (which would have...
Through the din of debate, three facts emerged: 1) the M.R.P. had resolved to conciliate the Communists to the limit, in order to preserve M.R.P.-Socialist-Communist coalition government; 2) the crux of the debate was the question of presidential powers; 3) behind the question of presidential powers loomed the presence of General Charles de Gaulle...
...wartime rye market-the one grain on which there were no ceilings-the sky was the limit on the wild speculation. Last week a Department of Agriculture referee, in preliminary findings, told just how wild it was: he found General Foods Corp., Daniel F. Rice and Co., and four members of the Chicago Board of Trade guilty of trying to corner the rye market...
...general relaxation of previous Committents accompanied the renewal of competitions in order to extend eligibility to war-affected veterans. The age limit of war service candidates has been advanced to 32, while civilian candidates still must be included within the 19 to 25 age group...