Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because it prepares its students for the profession which requires a maximum of brute strength has the Dental School decided on compulsory athletics for its members. More probably the authorities realized that the men in the Dental School are peculiarly unfortunate in their relation to athletic facilities, lying as they do far from the gymnasia and squash courts of Cambridge. Students in the Law and Business Schools, as well as those in the graduate schools more closely related to the College, have always found it easy to spend a little time each day in Hemenway or a conveniently located squash...
...assigning the rooms, a maximum of 12 men will be put in one group as they applied. These large groups will be given preference over smaller ones. The applications will first be sorted according to the number of men in each group. The rooms will then be assigned by lot to different groups of the same size instead of by order of preference, the method employed formerly...
Owing to the growth of the collections and consequent need of more space, as well as to insure safety from fire, the entire building was taken down and rebuilt during the years 1909 to 1915. To secure maximum safety from fire, all woodwork was avoided, even the furniture being chiefly of steel. Since then very little change has been made in the external equipment...
...rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete Cruiser A, the first warboat of 10,000 tons maximum size which Germany is permitted to build under the Treaty of Versailles. Fierce opposition to the measure came from the largest German party, Socialist, which is unalterably Pacifist. Therefore the chancellor of Germany, Socialist Müller, dared not vote for Cruiser...
...theorists and conjecturers wondered how the Republican South would be recognized, what new Californians might be taken to Washington, whether Mrs. Willebrandt would get her long-sought judgeship, etc., etc. Upon two basic matters, however, observers were satisfied-that the major appointments would contain a minimum of politics, a maximum of fitness; and that many an oldtime Hoover man would be recalled...