Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very important attributes on a river like the Charles, where there are so many mud flats and where so many of the bridges are too low to pass under at high tide. It was used yesterday afternoon and proved much faster than the "John Harvard." It has a maximum speed of about fifteen and one-half knots an hour and will hold from twenty to thirty people. The old launch could not hold more than about fourteen people comfortably. The "Frank Thompson" is finished completely in mahogany...
...gigantic dimensions, measuring at least thirty-five feet in length. It walked on its hind legs and used its fore feet for grasping prey, while its tail served as a support. The history of these most remarkable creatures shows that they developed from a diminutive type, gradually attained their maximum proportions, and dwindled again to an insignificant size. Their nearest living allies are to be found among the horned toads...
President Schurman proposes that when Cornell gets its share of the Fayer-weather bequest, it shall be used to establish a pension fund for the benefit of professors who have retired from teaching on account of age. He suggests that the maximum pension be $2000, and the age limit of active service be fixed at 65 years...
...advantages of the three years plan may be secured without diminishing the maximum requirements. - (a) Candidates for a degree may be allowed to take professional studies. - (b) Exceptionally bright men may even be allowed to shorten their term of residence...
...from that limit it rose gradually, during a period of fourteen years, until in 1882-83 it reached 65 per cent. These fourteen years cover most of the changes by which the standards of our professional schools were raised, and the number of their students temporarily reduced. From that maximum it has since steadily declined, until in the year 1894-95 it is again at 50 2/3 per cent...