Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bags which were stowed into the De Haviland Moth, evening clothes and other proper equipment for polite traveling. At the airdrome, a reporter asked questions which de Sibour answered with a little diatribe on the advantages of aviation. "The running expenses come to $15 per week at maximum. . . . My wife and I haven't been in a train all year. ... If you see an interesting tower or castle on the horizon, even if it is 20 or 30 miles away, you can go over and have a look at it. If you are flying over the seashore...
Apparently no one attempted a scientific and personal controversion of Fletcherism during the period of its maximum popularity. In fact it was not proved foolish until last week when one Dr. Harold G. O. Hoick, an instructor in physiology at the University of Chicago, announced the results of a four-and-a-half-year test which he had made upon himself. For two and a half years he ate like a pig, whenever he wanted and without undue mastication. Then for a year and a half he became a Fletcherite mincing his mouthfuls with bovine perseverance but not enthusiasm. After...
...immediate relief would come from an amendment to the Volstead Law giving a scientific definition of the alcoholic content of an intoxicating beverage. . . . Each State would then be allowed to fix its own standard of alcoholic content, subject always to the proviso that that standard could not exceed the maximum fixed by the Congress...
Though such rumors were obviously intended to produce a maximum shock from a minimum content of fact, they made it impossible for Signor Benito Mussolini to continue to pass over in silence the resignation of Finance Minister Count Volpi. The response of Il Duce, obediently voiced by unanimous editorials in the State dominated press, was that Fascist Italy has perfected as a substitute for the cabinet crises of more democratic states the Doctrine of Ministerial Rotations. Stripped of rhetoric, the Doctrine means that, while France gets a new set of Ministers every time her Cabinet falls, the fact that Prime...
Ceiling, absolute: Maximum height at which a given airplane could maintain horizontal flight...