Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First among the improvements announced by Mr. Mead were the increased facilities in the dining hall and kitchen. Last year a maximum of 650 men at a time could eat at the Union, but now 60 percent more than that number can be handled. Already this year the average number of men eating at the Union is 25 percent greater than the average at any time last year...
That word "contempt" is one that gives a maximum of satisfaction when spat out by old British lips and it usually exaggerates the feeling of the speaker. But there was little exaggeration in this case for the speaker was old Sir Edmund Gosse, poet and critic, onetime (1904-14) Librarian to the House of Lords, who at 76 styles himself "the last of the Pre-Raphaelites...
...reduction; lowering maximum, normal and surtax rates to less than...
...made up: 1) by increasing schedule taxes (roughly equivalent to normal income taxes in the U. S.); 2) by increasing the tax on unproductive capital; 3) by a sliding-scale tax on all revenue from capital (roughly equivalent to surtaxes in the U. S.) up to a maximum...
Thirty elevators will assist the goings in, the comings out, of the missionary guests; a swimming pool will assist them to approximate godliness; twelve roof gardens, laid out in perennial shrubs and beds of hardy flowers, will enchant their leisure; the maximum charge of $21 a week will cover board, two meals on week days, three on Sundays, radio service, hospital and gymnasium privileges. The building will cost...