Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dawes Plan lays down two working principles: 1) Germany now knows the maximum annual sum* she is expected to repay; 2) Germany has virtually complete commercial autonomy within the framework of the Plan. The Dawes Plan safeguards the Allies against German default by creating a virtual mortgage on German wealth (especially railways) in favor of the Allies. The Agent General of Reparations, at present Mr. Seymour Parker Gilbert, resides in Berlin as a sort of super-trustee. Under him is a comprehensive system of boards to adjust constantly outcropping problems, such as those of transfer...
Posterity has excused the crimes of Strafford and Hastings; they were committed for the sake of great public interests and were justified by their efficacy. Fall's greatest crime was his hopeless incompetency If it were possible to try an official for utter incapability, he would merit the maximum sentence: He is a living argument that idiocy should be a statutory offense...
...fact that few people take time to realize that the primary instincts of the greatest mathematical investigators are aesthetic. However, such a conception of the subject is becoming widespread. In the old sense, those students in the secondary schools and technical colleges of this country who elect the maximum number of scientific subjects receive no culture whatsoever, yet the students are thoroughly convinced that culture may be obtained through the pursuit of science...
...Student Board of the Student Government Organization of Penn State has recently received provisional power to recommend punishment for students guilty of dishonesty, gambling and unethical conduct with dismissal from college as the maximum punishment for any offense. Final authority, be it noted, is to rest in the President of the College...
None the less Czechoslovakian and Austrian steelmongers immediately clamored to get into the consortium. It is probable that they will be admitted and restricted to a 2,000,000-ton maximum yearly output...