Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost impossible to convict a man on the charge of speculating, that is, selling a ticket at a price above fifty cents over face value, as it is very difficult to prove the amount of a transaction. For this reason the city ordinance, violation of which involves a maximum fine of $20, is resorted...
Manhattan has a zoning law which stipulates that the sides of skyscrapers be set back at intervals, thus tapering the building towards the top to allow maximum light and air to the streets...
...pyramid casts the minimum shadow for its cubic capacity. Conversely, an upside-down pyramid would cast the maximum, keeping the lower floors in shade at all times. At high noon the towers would be completely in their own shadows...
...president in charge of sales and one of the four men who operate the great Studebaker Corp. and who are currently engaged in making Fierce-Arrow highly profitable : "Whether you like it or not, the public wants speed. . . . This Council can save lives by urging States to remove their maximum speed laws so that motorcycle policemen will stop chasing fast cars that are imperiling no one and devote themselves to removing the reckless driver from the highways." Said Louis Dublin, famed statistician of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. "That was the most outrageous talk I ever heard. Mr. Hoffman...
...claim to be 100 or older. Most of them unintentionally exaggerate, said Louis Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statistician who hastened from the National Safety Council meeting at Chicago last week to the American Public Health Association Convention at Minneapolis. To the health officers he named 80 as the maximum age to which most people could aspire. Medical, public health and sanitary work the past half century has increased the average life of the whole population by 20 years, but has not been able to prevent senility and the deterioration of old age, has not lengthened human life appreciably...