Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speed at which a rocket would have to travel to get free of the earth's gravity has been calculated as seven miles per second. The best rocket fuel yet tried (liquid oxygen and gasoline or alcohol) has a theoretical propulsive limit of two miles per second, and no actual rocket has approached that limit. Using the best present metal alloys and fuel, says Ley, a rocket ship designed for a round trip to the moon would have to be one-third the height of the Empire State Building-apparently a practical impossibility. But war research has improved fuels...
...Fund (where quotas determine a nation's borrowing and voting limit), Colombia and Chile, like several other nations, wanted quotas bigger than $45 million. Mexico's Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros brought down the house by voluntarily giving each of them $5 million from the $100 million allotted to his country...
Since applicants must seek admission to the Medical School at least ten months in advance of the expected entrance date according to the regulations of the institution, no women can be admitted before 1945, even if the Overseers act immediately. No limit has been placed on the number of women to be accepted in the first class affected by the new decision...
This group hopes to collect and spend up to $3,000,000, the legal limit. This will be raised by passing the hat and by making appeals in newspaper advertisements. But just to make sure, P.A.C. has passed down word that it expects at least $1 from each C.I.O. member. A slogan already in vogue : "A Buck for Roosevelt." Most of this money will indeed go for the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt, for P.A.C.'s main strength will be thrown into the Fourth Term effort...
...spite of the small early turnout, Reed and Lamont hope to produce a team that will be able to stand up in competition with nearby colleges and service camps. No membership limit has been fixed by the club...