Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Originally, the decision to limit the number of girls moving off-campus had been based on both financial considerations and the desirability of having seniors living in a dormitory with under-classmen...
Berryman's work simply cannot be read this way. None of the great creative violations of convention in literary history can be. Literature redeems itself by going the limit, by taking the same sort of risks that Berryman found in Augie March in the form of "an inquisitiveness, let's call it that, so extreme that it becomes a way of life, a tempting, a touching of all the boundaries..." No one, of course, can take risks who doesn't know the rules, but what is perhaps most impressive about John Berryman is his unwillingness to define expertise in purely...
...scientific methods of observing phenomena, who bases what he says on a corpus of knowledge built up by observation and experiment and constantly verified by further processes of practice and observation." The prestige of science has been helped along by the analytic tradition of philosophy, which tends to limit "meaningful" ideas and statements to those that can be verified. It is no wonder, then, that even devout believers are empirical in outlook, and find themselves more at home with vis ible facts than unseen abstractions...
...promotion for Pirelli tires. Alberto also took a ride in Orville Wright's plane in Paris in 1908 and thus became the first Italian to fly. In 1917, when a Pirelli engineer patented an oil-insulated cable that could safely handle far more than the then limit of 33,000 volts, the company established a big name in high-tension cables. Pirelli cables now carry up to 420,000 volts. Recently, Pirelli put out its "BS" tire with replaceable tread bands, including a spiked winter band...
...Limit the number of children's candy-flavored aspirin in a single package, in the hope that even if a youngster gobbled a whole bottleful the effects would not be fatal...