Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the arrest at Londonderry of Eamonn de Valera, President of the Irish "Republic" (TIME, Nov. 3) the police removed him under strong guard to Belfast, where he was tried and condemned to one month's imprisonment, although the maximum term of incarceration prescribed is two years...
...clouds immediately condense and disappear. if is possible, according to Professor Chaffee, for the Government to keep their large cities, landing fields, and harbors free from fogs and dense clouds, by using larger planes, which could scatter electrified sand at the rate of 100 pounds per minute, the maximum amount of sand which the planes now being used in the experiments can scatter...
...competent supporting cast, the saturnine Edna May Oliver squeezes the maximum of merriment out of a shrewd supply of neatly satiric lines...
...total number of paid admissions for the game is approximately 51,500. Including the regiment of officials named above, the mmbers of the rival squads, and those lucky souls who have been able to get the coveted sideline passes, the crowd at the Stadium will attain its maximum capacity...
...instinct of all the Presidential candidates, and he was certainly the logical man to propose a special election. Senator La Follette has also set a time limit to the house-cleaning he will do if elected but being less conservative than Mr. Davis has stipulated eighteen months as his maximum. President Coolidge has said nothing about corruption. Being the most conservative of the candidates, he would doubtless place his estimate at four years. Perhaps, since he is the only person in a position to know, he thinks that no length of time would be sufficient...