Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's swiftest (632 m.p.h.) land-borne man, was restricted to "routine," low-speed runs, ordered to quit torturing himself for science on the meteoric, eye-blackening sled trials. Explaining that Stapp was unhappy to be "grounded," an Air Force spokesman added: "He has really crowded the limit of human tolerance. We don't believe he or anyone should stretch his luck any further...
...which he calls "expendable." These, if detected early, meaning before they have spread, are indeed often curable. But they may soon spread to vital parts. "The surgeon is constantly reducing the number of anatomical structures that are essential to life, but at this time there appears to be a limit beyond which he cannot hope to go. The brain, heart, some lung tissue, and other organs will probably be indispensable for some time. The [cancers] involving these parts are threats to life from the time of their origin...
...every station he has bought, Storz has raised salaries and cut staffs, says: "We'd rather pay one good man three times what we'd pay for three mediocre ones." He is shopping for two more stations, to raise his bag to seven, the legal limit. Storz professes to be uninterested in TV. Says he: "Our formula is good as long as radio is good-and we think radio is good forever...
...last week the original plan to limit the President's campaigning to a few speeches from Washington had been completely scrapped. He now stands ready to make extensive campaign trips by air to New England, the Midwest, the Northwest and-possibly-the South...
...food, and the microscopic vegetation of the sea is too dilute for easy harvesting. But Dr. Bonner thinks that some algae-eating animal (a "sea-pig") may be domesticated or developed to graze on sea water as cattle graze on grass. His conclusion is that there is no practical limit to the amount of food that the world can produce...