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Word: limiteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge electrons will move at almost but not quite the speed of light, which is the absolute speed limit of the universe. If one of them were to start around the earth at the same time as a beam of light, it would be racing only five inches behind when the beam had made the circuit and reached its starting point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fat Electrons | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...Getter. In El Paso, Alderman Bob Kolliner took off after a speeding bus, haled the driver into court where Kolliner drew a $25 fine when he sheepishly admitted that he lacked the authority to exceed the speed limit himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

Schaefer indicated this remedy was preferable to that embodied in a bill recently passed by the House of Representatives. The House Bill, which would limit the authority of federal judges to issue writs of habeas corpus in certain state cases, is now pending in the Senate, Senate...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Flood of Applications Depreciates Habeas Corpus, Schaefer Claims | 4/27/1956 | See Source »

...that the U.N. is designed to prevent. The U.N. recognizes in the veto provision the fact that if the great powers themselves are in direct conflict, the U.N. can do nothing more than attempt to conciliate. But where only small powers are involved, it is possible to limit if not to prevent war, provided the Big Five concur. Working through the U.N. . . . fixes the fact that the Soviet Union has a solemn responsibility for the prevention of war. It is the part of wisdom not to have the Soviet Union operating from the outside and with a free hand, publicly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Stopping Small Wars | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...Menderes hated to give them up. Instead, he hoped for more money-$300 million of it-from the U.S., but did not get it. It took a rebellion in his own party last fall before Menderes agreed to a program of economic reform which would balance the budget and limit new investment to feasible projects already started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Dams & Deficits | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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