Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This catalogue description hasn't changed much over the years, except that recently the enrollment figure has increased markedly each year. But with the present figure, Terry says, the school has reached a "real limit." The limitation is partly physical: Middlesex's six "houses" and dining hall are becoming uncomfortably crowded...
...Gulf of Mexico, just as the Republic of Texas did before it joined the U.S. in 1845. Ike kept the campaign promise: in 1953 he signed a bill (similar to bills that Harry Truman had vetoed) turning over to the states the "submerged lands" out to the three-mile limit -"unless" the state's "historic" boundary lay farther out. Texas was mighty pleased...
...page brief -the longest federal brief in the court's history. It argued that Texas, Louisiana and the other gulf states reach only three miles out, not three leagues, and dunned the states for some $100 million in oil revenues collected from drillers operating beyond the three-mile limit. The U.S., said the brief, has always fixed its national boundary at three miles offshore and has urged other nations to do likewise. "Manifestly, state boundaries cannot extend beyond the national boundary. By annexing Texas, the U.S. certainly did not commit itself to relinquish what has been a fundamental cornerstone...
...control he learned as a synagogue cantor has given him extra power. He hoisted a total of 804⅓ lbs. for a new world record. The other U.S. squad members seemed so far from shape that the rest of the scheduled matches promised to be Russian pushovers. Bantamweight (class limit: 123½ Ibs.) Charles Vinci, a squat Ohio steelworker who has been recently unemployed, had been forced to trade valuable training time for job hunting, and was worn out. Middle-Heavyweight (198½ Ibs.) Dave Sheppard, the handsome health-food salesman who claims an unofficial world eating championship (five meals...
...security," Carson said, "is based on many considerations -our military posture, our overall economic and political strength, and our relationships with our friends and neighbors with whom we share a common danger. As administrator of the program it is my job to limit crude-oil imports in the interests of national security. My efforts are not, should not, and cannot be devoted to protection of the markets and profits of any individual. Nor can this be the function of the Federal Government in this highly complex field of crude-oil imports...