Word: limits
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...instrument will extend the effective limit of accurate observation from the present 10,000 light years to 30,000 light years. It will be employed to bring about a mapping of the Southern Milky Way and to seek evidence concerning the origin of this galaxy...
...limit to inordinate state interference, Friedmann advocated the prosecution of any department of the state for every crime where private enterprise would be penalized...
...truce and a three-man fact-finding board to settle the eight-month-old coal dispute. Wrote Lewis: "The mineworkers do not wish three strangers, however well-intentioned, but necessarily ill-informed, to fix their Wages, decree their working conditions, define their living standards and limit the educational opportunities of their children...
...small. Theoretically, a pound of hydrogen turned into helium yields about seven times as much energy as a pound of fissioning uranium, and very large quantities can be used. Uranium bombs must not be too big or they will explode spontaneously. Hydrogen bombs would suffer from no such limit. Theoretically, a single bomb filling a whole ship could be exploded in an unsuspecting enemy's harbor. Such an explosion would rank as an astronomical event...
...power of a bomb will depend not only on its size, but on its efficiency, which cannot be determined until at least one test bomb has exploded. There may be a limit beyond which it would not pay to add reactive materials. Very large bombs might burn as nuclear bonfires, wasting much of their effect upon space...