Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turnpike has four lanes with a posted speed limit of sixty miles an hour. It should shorten the trip to New York by at least a half an hour or even more for the intrepid college motorist. The chief advantage of the road for the New York traveler is that it cuts out the bleak stretch comprising Routes 9 and 20 to the Wilbur Cross Parkway...
...program at present is to encourage the departments to experiment in the hope they find a definite use for the system. The plan is left purposely undefined because the Committee on Advanced Standing is reluctant to establish the outer bounds of course reduction or in other ways limit the prerogatives of the department...
Hopefully, the British Laborites can exert sufficient influence in their government to halt England's summer tests temporarily. Although British and American legislators cannot, on their own, negotiate any permanent end to the tests, nor do more than try to limit the tests to those of purely tactical weapons, their discussions with the Russians can be important. The talks would serve to probe Communist intentions, while postponing further activity on either side of the Iron Curtain...
...expect a sudden spurt if the restrictions are lifted. British exports to China, worth $30 million last year (less than 1% of Britain's total exports), would probably double. Japanese exports to China, worth $24 million in this year's first quarter, have about reached the limit unless Peking can ship more and better coal and iron ore to Japan. West Germany, already straining to meet other foreign orders, could not send much more than last year's $37 million in goods to China without reducing exports to the West...
...physicist brought his concluding statements to bear on the problem of the limits of knowledge, and declared that the only limit placed on what man knew was man's life span. He said, however, that we must realize and appreciate our own and others' ignorance, for it is impossible to ever accumulate any great amount of knowledge in a lifetime. "The recognition of the inherent necessity of ignorance is the beginning of a sort of wisdom," he said...