Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FLOOD INSURANCE is expected to go on sale in May or June. Federal Flood Indemnity Administration has named 15-member committee from industry, agriculture to help smooth out problems facing its first substantial coverage, e.g.: Should $250,000 policy limit be applied to any company's total holdings, or to each separate facility owned by company...
49th State. Suez exposed Britain's reduced status as a military power, the vulnerability of its economy and the limit of what it once considered the unlimited backing of its closest ally. The danger in all the resultant self-flagellant humility was that Britain might turn to a "Lay this burden down" philosophy, or a retreat into a popular but disastrous attitude of "Let Uncle Sam do it." Yet many in Britain saw that though Colonel Blimp lies punctured, Private Mouse is not necessarily a wiser counselor...
...ever since Jules Verne's "voyage" to the moon in a habitable projectile (see cut). Today's rocket speeds are good for trips in the solar system, but for interstellar voyages they are hopelessly slow. Conservative space enthusiasts accept the speed of light as the absolute speed limit in the material universe, and they know that even at this ultimate speed a spaceship can reach only nearby stars within a human generation. This seems to put a limit on man's interstellar mobility. But some optimistic scientists see hope in "time dilation." If a spaceship cruising toward...
...cross section of the whole market and thus attempts merely to show the broadest changes in trading sentiment. On a weekly basis, Standard & Poor does publish a mammoth index of 480 stocks, but for hourly and daily operations, it is impractical to calculate, such a wide selection, thus statisticians limit themselves to what they hope is a small but representative sampling. As a result, the averages sometimes show a rise in the market, when the fact is that the majority of stocks, most of which cannot be included, have gone down...
Against Williams, which perennially ranks as one of the varsity's top rivals for squash honors, the Crimson was never in trouble. Only three matches went to four games and one to the five game limit...