Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...West Side Republican Club in New York. The team left Cambridge yesterday afternoon. The play takes place between the hours of 1 and 6 in the afternoon, and 8 and 10 in the evening on the days of the tournament. The games will be played at a time-limit of fifteen moves an hour, and all games unfinished by 10 o'clock will be adjudicated by the referee...
...groups, or in sets, and by doing so can check or in part prevent the dilapidation of the human countenance by age, and provide the indispensable means of chewing food. Thereby active and enjoyable life can unquestionably be prolonged. This is one of the reasons for the advancing limit of active life in the well-to-do classes. Dentistry does not often save life in dangerous crises, as surgery does, but on the whole the dentist within his range is more frequently successful than the surgeon is, and his range includes many preventions of pain, contributions to comfort and enjoyment...
After demonstrating the principles of soaring, by blackboard diagrams, Mr. Merrill went on to explain the present weakness of the aeroplane, namely, the engine. It is the inefficiency of the motive power which has and still does limit the range and speed of the heavier-than-air machine. It is on the engine that French scientists are now putting their greatest efforts. To get the maximum horse-power with a minimum weight is the present problem of aeronautics. If the engine ceases to supply power the aeroplane has to descend and if this happens over a country devoid of suitable...
...other events will be as follows: five-mile run, scratch; invitation 40-yard dash, scratch; invitation putting 12-pound shot, scratch; 40-yard dash, 9-foot limit; 600-yard run, 30-yard limit; 45-yard high hurdle race, 3 flights, 3 feet 6 inches high, 9-foot limit; 1000-yard run, 50-yard limit; one-mile run, 60-yard limit; putting 16-pound shot, 6-foot limit. Competitors must show that they have put the 16-pound shot 38 feet, and high-jumped 5 feet 3 inches in competition, in order to qualify for these events...
...University chess team plays its annual match with Yale in the Game Room of the Union this evening from 7 until 12 o'clock. The team, which wins at five and draws another of the ten games to be played, will win the match. There will be a time limit of at least twenty moves during the first and fifteen during the second hour...