Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next Senate of the U. S. is a matter of less conjecture than the complexion of the next House. The House will be what the voters make it in November. The Senate will remain two- thirds as it is now. The factor of variation in the latter is a maximum of 33 seats. The present composition is 51 Republicans, 43 Democrats, 2 Farmer-Laborites. In reality the division is about 42 Democrats, 42 Republicans and 12 Radicals. To have a majority (49), either of the major parties must elect a minimum of 7 more regulars than it now has from...
...defeated by a vote of 170 to 3. The State Senate acted similarly. In Georgia, 89,000 children between the ages of 10 and 15 years- 20.8% of that age-group-are workers. Boys of 12, if orphans, are permitted to work in cotton mills. There is a maximum 10-hour day; and night work is permitted. A bill is before the Legislature (and reported likely to be passed) which will prohibit the employment of all children under 14 and forbid night work for those under 16. Nevertheless, Georgia was determined to have no national interference by "long-haired agitatists...
...maintain that the present hypocritical attitude toward the whole question of prohibition would be greatly relieved by having Congress fix a maximum alcoholic content based upon science and sound reasoning, thereafter leaving every state to enact any statute it pleases with regard to regulation of the traffic in light wines and beer within that alcoholic content, so that the state that desires light wines and beer within the alcoholic content prescribed by Congress may also have what it desires...
...Eighty per cent of the schools are integral parts of universities. The number of students enrolled during the past year was 17,808, the largest number since 1912, when the higher entrance requirements went into effect generally. The medical schools are still not filled to their maximum capacity. At present there is in the U. S. one physician to every 724 people. In the British Isles there is one physician to every 1,087 people; and just prior to the World War there was in the countries of Middle Europe one physician to every 2,000 to 2,500 people...
...cycle they gradually disappear again; and eleven years after the first cycle began, they start to reappear and proceed through the same process. In 1923 the sun spot cycle was at its low ebb, but spots are again beginning to appear and we may look for the maximum in five or six years...