Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World indoor track and field records took a wholesale battering at the National A.A.U. championships in New York City's Madison Square Garden. Boston University's High Jumper John Thomas, whose capabilities seem limitless, cleared 7 ft. 1¼ in.-the highest jump in history, indoors or out. Ron Delany, of Villanova and Ireland, who runs to win and no more, got such pressure from a topflight field that he lowered his own indoor mark for the mile to 4:02.5. Air Force Lieut. Bill Bellinger, world indoor record holder at two miles, set a new three-mile...
...Senate's new Rule XXII was the personal product of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. As such, it represented a middle way between the Senate's Southerners, who hold with the idea of limitless debate, and Senate liberals, who would impose cloture at the drop of a drawl. The Johnson-sponsored rule will...
...challenge of the atom is as limitless as its accomplishments. Among the biggest challenges of the future is the channeling of the atom's awesome potential into commercial power...
...machine does any teaching. It just presents the material in a logical way, conveys knowledge from the composer of the program to the student. Of course it is infinitely more efficient than a real teacher, since the number of students to whom it can convey this information is virtually limitless...
...most ambitious pictures are sometimes the least successful, being too finicky and insistent. But Roasted Chestnuts bids fair to rival Wyeth's famed Young America (TIME, July 16, 1951) as a national icon. Young America shows a boy in G.I. castoffs riding a gaudy bicycle across a limitless plain. Roasted Chestnuts gives new depth to the romance. It looks like the same boy, grown to gangly youth. He stands light and tall beside his homemade chestnut stove, at the edge of a bare, wintry highway, awaiting all the world...