Word: maximal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe you will find that the inventor of the Maxim Silencer was Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, and not Hiram Percy Maxim as you have it. His dates...
Subscriber Kane has confused father & son. Sir Hiram-Stevens Maxim invented the automatic rifle. Son Hiram Percy (no Sir) invented the Sifencer...
...scarcely conceivable in the present political and moral situation of the world." President Hoover was represented last week by Ambassador (to Belgium) Hugh Gibson. "We shall contribute," said Mr. Gibson, "a great deal of silence." Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia was represented by Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. "This is the last time that Soviet Russia will send a delegation to this Preparatory Conference," he declared, recalling that three years ago he submitted a proposal for "absolute disarmament" of all nations, and later a proposal for "50% disarmament," both of which were rejected-Mr. Gibson having been...
...Candida, The Sacred Flame), onetime wife of Playwright Sidney Howard (she played in his Swords, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Silver Cord, Lucky Sam McCarver) ; after several operations; in London. She was a niece of Mme Emma Eames De Gogorza, famed opera singer, and of Mrs. Hiram Percy Maxim, wife of Silencer-inventor Maxim...
...feels that the average expedition even of the last thirty years has been sent out by schools and other agencies without as thorough equipment as should have been provided. The Harvard school will seek to remedy this defect. Students will be taught, for instance, to make maps of maxim accuracy; they will be trained in the use of wireless for the plotting of their exact positions, and in the skilled use of the new instruments of recent invention...