Word: maxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aristocrat's Assistant. Maxim Maxi-movich Litvinoff cut his diplomatic eyeteeth in the service of the great Georgy Chicherin, aristocratic, Tolstoyan figure who grew up to be a Tsarist diplomat and later renounced his inheritance to become a hunted revolutionary. Chicherin-with Litvinoff as his Vice-Commissar-struggled in the early 1920s to break through the cordon sanitaire which French President Raymond Poincaré had tried to weld around hated Red Russia. The Soviet Union was not even permitted a seat in the spectators' gallery at the Versailles Peace Conference. Many a country refused to recognize...
Figure Skating is patterned on the ballet. To make sure their figures would fit perfectly the music which accompanied them, World Champion Pair Skaters Ernst Baier, 29-year-old Berlin architect, and Maxi Herber, his 16-year-old Munich protégée, last autumn had themselves photographed in action by a cinema camera, sent the film to a composer who devised a score to match their action. This painstaking process justified itself last week. The seven judges soberly awarded Skaters Herber & Baier first prize for a demonstration which supplied in finish whatever it lacked in spontaneity. Viennese Bandleader...
...some coaxing Ambassador Gibson was at last gotten firmly up on the rostrum and all opposition was squelched. "My government would have preferred a resolution accepting still more definitely the details of the President's plan," said Mr. Gibson, "but the American Delegation feels the present resolution contains the maxi mum of agreement which can now be achieved...
...Fisher of Hubbard Woods, Ill., the lanky, 26-year-old son of Walter Lowrie Fisher, one of Chicago's leading lawyers. Secretary of the Interior under President Taft. Howard Fisher is both a technician and theorist in architecture. Architects in many lands have read his paper on getting the maxi mum amount of sunlight into a house. He is considered an expert on designing squash courts. One day he noticed his brother's walls were leaking. When he found out that Chicago's Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium, both masonry structures, also had leak troubles, he decided steel would...
...relation to each other. But by a hand-crank in the pilot's cockpit, the lower wing can be moved fore & aft, pendulum-like, through an arc of 14 degrees, tilting the upper wing to the same degree. About to land, the pilot sets his wings at the maxi mum angle, throttles the motor, and lets the plane settle. Because the centre of gravity is well aft, the plane will not nose over, according to its designers. Also, it is claimed, the plane is incapable of spinning, diving, stunting-of anything except safe, conventional flight. Only visible difference from...