Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which he had designed for next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased by movable screens, workers in actinic glass houses would get a maximum of insurance against rickets, pneumonia, tuberculosis. . . . Other exhibits prepared for the Exposition, to which engineers and architects are coming from the world's ends: diving suits, machine guns, ship models, mechanical production inspectors...
...writing of the book it may be said that May Sinclair handles her story well, although at times the feeling is inevitable that six brain children are too large a brood for any author to handle. The plot usually well-sustained, at points of maximum action strays, wobbles, stumbles. Of the characters, categorical differentiations are employed to help the reader tell one from the other, but the net effect is of a houseful of wooden Indians worked by wires. Not since Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922) has May Sinclair been herself...
Accordingly, Chiang cabled Wang to hurry back from France, but kept his coming a secret, so that Wang landed last week with a maximum of theatrical suddenness. Chiang at once announced that Wang is still "President"† of the Nationalist Government. Who after all, shall say that Wang...
Chief Statistician Louis I. Dublin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. published surprising statistics on juvenile suicide in general. Among two million persons aged 15 to 19 the suicide rate for white boys was 6.7 per 100,000 in 1911, 6.16 in 1912. In 1913 it reached a maximum of 7.3 per 100,000. In 1923 it dropped to a minimum of 1.7. In 1925 and 1926 it rose to 3.9 per 100,000. Until 1921, more girls than boys aged 15 to 19 killed themselves. Lately the boy's rate has been the higher...
...Miller, 40, with his wife at his side, heard the jury's verdict without wincing, without emotion. "I am not through fighting yet," said he. He faces a maximum penalty of two years in prison plus a $10,000 fine. But his attorney, Aaron Sapiro, who is suing Henry Ford for $1,000,000, immediately announced that he would carry Mr. Miller's case to a higher court. "Colonel Miller does not take the attitude of being the 'goat,'" said Mr. Sapiro. "As you know, Colonel Miller did not take the stand or call any witnesses...