Word: maximal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...travel with an oxygen cylinder, tuberculous Maxim Gorki, famed Russian writer, arrived in Berlin en route to an anti-war congress at Amsterdam, stayed there in a hospital when Dutch authorities denied him a visa...
...speak later," cried President Henderson, but by this time Mr. Gibson had left the rostrum and was perched on the edge of a chair. When the U. S. Ambassador was about to make his third start, he saw that Soviet Delegate Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov had arisen. "For several weeks, even months," observed the Russian, "several delegations have been talking continuously, while others have not spoken at all ! Unless they have lost the habit of speaking, delegates should be allowed to speak as they wish...
Soviet Russia alone came forward last week to support President Hoover's proposal (Italy and certain minor nations having already done so). Cried big, bearish Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, "My government will accept no resolution terminating this Conference which does not embody the principle of one-third reduction of arms...
...elected Captain of the track team. He has no special training methods. He eats what he likes until three hours before a meet when he gobbles steak, tea, custard. Calm, almost lethargic, Eastman's style of running is in character. He contradicts the Indian maxim which says: "White man, body make legs go; red man, legs make body go." His shoulders lilt with his stride but his body does not move and strain, his glasses never wobble on his nose. As Indians are supposed to do, he toes in slightly and, unlike most fast runners, tracks in an absolutely...
Speaking for Soviet Russia, roly-poly Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov reminded the Conference that more than four years ago he proposed "complete disarmament" (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927). Having been cut at the present Conference by all the U. S. Delegates, Comrade Litvinov enjoyed smirking: "My Government favors complete disarmament, it favors partial disarmament, it favors qualitative, quantitative and real disarmament of every kind." (That day U. S. Delegate Senator Swanson so far unbent as to chat for two minutes with Red Litvinov...