Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offense. All the players gain more experience by this method than as if the attacks of all the teams were similar Secondly, we are trying to coach them as teams, with an idea of developing team-play and co-operation. We try too to give each man a maximum of actual play, and of coaching in the particular department of the game in which he is interested...
Able Commander van der Kun, squeezing, sprucely attired, from his conning tower hatch, said: "We left Helder on May 27 and seldom steamed our maximum of 18 knots, since we are making a long distance run and cannot risk accidents. Because of our slow speed our voyage was similar to that of Columbus. Although, in case of an accident we would have been helpless without a mother ship, the men never showed a, qualm when we passed out of sight of land. . . . I am always pessimistic on a submarine, for that is safest. I do not let even...
Last week William V. Dwyer, sportsman, race track owner, head of a $40,000,000 liquor syndicate, was convicted along with his "payoff man," E. C. Cohron, of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law, sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine, the maximum penalty under the law. Asked by U. S. Attorney Emory R. Buckner if he had received a "square deal," Mr. Dwyer smiled. "Positively," he said...
...district attorney, R. K. Hanger, announced that Dr. Norris, like any other Texas indictee; will receive acquittal, a minimum of two years for manslaughter, or the maximum of death in the electric chair, depending on how the twelve good Texas jurymen decide...
...December, a tax reduction bill fresh from the hands of the Ways and Means Committee was waiting for it. Before Christmas, the House had passed it, by the middle of February the Senate too had stamped it with approval, and the bill reducing surtaxes and estate taxes to a maximum of 20%, shaving down the maximum normal tax and increasing personal exemptions became law. Such was one of the first, one of the greatest accomplishments...