Word: limits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three young Naval officers aboard the Shipping Board liner America when she left Manhattan for Cherbourg last week. All the journey across the Atlantic, and back to Manhattan, the young men are to blow up the balloons with gas and watch them float and bob away to the limit of their tethers. While aloft the balloons will indicate upper air currents. When they are pulled back to the America's deck, self-registering thermometers on some will show upper air temperature variation. All the observations will provide facts for theses on hitherto incompletely known ocean aerology, which the three...
...forerunner of a world conference, to be called in October, to limit production in all oil fields, ending the race to corner the supply, lessening international tension...
...compromises respecting submarines and categories. But the "Secropen Diplomacy" stunt of last week is open to a grave suspicion that it may be empty of any real compromise, and designed simply as a blatant advertisement that France and Great Britain stand together diplomatically however unready they may be to limit armaments...
...young dentist, Dr. Arthur Woolsey, of Elizabeth, N. J., in despair, wrote that on his own stationery last week. And he wrote this: "I have everything mortgaged to the limit and not a thing of my own except that which is due me at the office. If that had come in when it was due this could have been avoided. My only message to the dentists with whom I have worked is to work for cash only; credit will only bring trouble...
...records that have been made during the last ten years. No Olympics are complete without a few preliminary squawks. Perhaps the reason is that, while the Olympics are supposed to be the essence of amateurism, there is always a suspicion that amateurism is being stretched to the outside limit of the law. Take the case of Charles Paddock, U. S. sprinter, whose amateur status and sportsmanship have long been questioned. The Sportsman, a magazine impeccable in taste, had damaging evidence against him (TIME, June, 11); a distinguished vice president of the American Olympic Committee resigned because of him; the British...