Word: limits
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...full brother, Duke, was admitted two years ago, has been living happily in the Melbourne suburb of Saint Kilda with his wife and two children. At Colombo two weeks ago, John Trench-Thiedemann was one of a mixed-blood deputation which waited on Spender, to ask that Australia limit the test for Eurasians to proof of their descent, without requiring "predominantly European features." Spender promised to see what could be done...
Actually, the campaign stumbled at the start. All parties, especially the Tories, were uncertain how to interpret a new election law. It limits what a candidate may legally spend to ?450, plus twopence for each voter in a county constituency, a penny ha'penny for each voter in a borough constituency. The law says that victorious candidates can be unseated if it is proved that they and their supporters spent more than the legal limit. The big question was: Would the courts decide that expenses of regular month-to-month political propaganda were chargeable against individual candidates as campaign...
...some of whom deplore McCulloch's analogies, agree with him on one point: that the machines need better memories. The machines are already quicker than the brain: their vacuum tubes act 1 ,000 times faster than neurons. But their poor memories (rudimentary compared to the brain's) limit their thinking abilities. The punched tapes and cards that some of them spew out are not real internal memories, since they cannot be consulted quickly. They are more like reference libraries...
...they were just inside the foul line, or because they thought he whole business was silly. The NCAA may be fulfilling its constructional promise by establishing a uniform law of amateurism; if so, it is proceeding under a definition of "amateur" that stretches Noah Webster's reasoning to its limit...
...Bombay, 85,000 members of the Aga Khan's Khoja Sect turned out to greet their spiritual leader when he arrived by plane for his first visit to India since 1946. The beaming father-in-law of Cinemactress Rita Hay worth was somewhat over the standard 66-lb. limit on passenger baggage. He flew in with 31 pieces of luggage weighing...