Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a battalion of more than 250 masons, carpenters, plumbers, day laborers, and superintendents working at top speed, the construction of the new chemistry laboratory on Oxford Street has attained its maximum pace. The builders' contract names May 1 as the completion date for the two buildings which will compose the projected chemistry group, and according to present indications this date will see the outside of the buildings, at least, actually completed. The interiors will be finished up and the equipment for this new chemical plant installed during the summer. The Chemistry Department is planning to move into...
...Bridge, which is still the most widely played of all. In its present form all four of the players, beginning with the dealer, have a chance to bid (though no hand is at first exposed). Bidding laws, convention and shrewdness enable a potent partnership to give each other the maximum of valuable information as to the contents of their hands and the possibilities of winning play in combination. When the hand is finally auctioned to the highest bidder, his partner exposes his hand and the play for tricks proceeds...
Tariff Law. A staggering shock jarred the nerves of U. S. businessmen in Paris: the French government published the full text of its new general tariff law, wherein it was found that $80,000,000 worth of goods sold by the U. S. in France was subject to a maximum duty ranging from 100% to 13% higher than formerly...
...must visualize war as coming suddenly without our desire or expectation and in spite of every course of action to avoid it. Our maximum effort will be demanded speedily. If this requires the impossible, it must be remembered that war is a game of impossibilities...
...attempt the transatlantic flight. It rose slowly. Vainly Leon Givon and Pierre Corbu, French flyers, tried to put it above 1,000 feet. Pointing westward, they found a blinding mist. After a three-hour struggle, they felt it foolhardy to fly through fog with 1,000 feet maximum altitude, gave up temporarily the transatlantic flight, returned to Le Bourget. ¶Capt. F. T. Courtney, English flyer, waited almost all summer to make the treacherous westward passage across the Atlantic in his flying boat, The Whale. With autumn coming and weather chances fading, he hopped off from Plymouth, England. Fearing...