Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Despite the hallowed U.S. tradition that a state campus should take in all qualified comers. President George Cross of the University of Oklahoma sadly announced that he no longer can. Because of lack of room and faculty, he told the state legislature, he will have to limit next September's freshman class to 2,500 (previous enrollment...
Great telescopes such as the 200-incher on Palomar Mountain were designed for gathering faint starlight from a wide area and concentrating it in an image bright enough to make a photograph in a practical length of time. The limit of this method has probably been reached; big telescopes are wickedly expensive and hard to build. So forward-looking astronomers are now looking for other ways to brighten a telescopic image...
...long as he keeps up his monthly payments, the borrower can go on indefinitely drawing checks against his limit. To date, about 2,000 people have been approved for the revolving credit plan (average credit: $450), 100 applications are being made daily...
Died. Dr. Otto Gessler, 80, post-World War I (1920-28) German Minister of Defense, who sanctioned the German Republic's creation of an illegal "black Reichswehr" in violation of the 100,000-man limit set by the Versailles treaty; of a heart attack; in Lindenberg, Germany...
...whole, the publishers shy away from drugstores and newsstands, sell the respectable paperbacks through bookstores and give them dignified advertising. Only apparent limit to the trend: the number of good books available...