Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Limiting the maximum time allowed for any one speech to 30 minutes instead of 60 minutes as at present. Saving: indefinite...
...three parties are to remain, is the nation to be guarded against too frequent dissolutions? I should on no ground leave to the monarch the invidious and dangerous task of being the guardian. . . . Looking ahead, however, one of two things may have to be done. The present maximum life of the House of Commons is five years. Shall we be driven to fix a minimum? If we were it ought not to be more than three years. As an alternative, could the House of Commons be made to decide its own dissolution within the maximum period fixed? There are objections...
...Dopie" Ikie Schneider, Archie Wotin, "Dago" Jack Marinari are arrested for murder and robbery. Meyer defends the boys-fellow-gangsters. A planted juror causes a disagreement. Another trial brings conviction, with executive clemency as the last hope. The Republican Governor, believer in the maximum penalty, is adamant. The three men are electrocuted. But Meyer has his revenge on the Governor...
...rocket offers great opportunities for making photographs and meteorological records above the 20-30 mile stratum beyond the range of airplanes. Once it gets free of the earth's atmosphere moreover, it would operate still better, as its maximum efficiency is in a vacuum. Dr. Goddard makes no Jules Verne predictions for future interplanetary communication by passenger-carrying cars, but he does definitely aver that there are no insuperable obstacles to this first modest mechanical attempt to reach other worlds than...
...charge of deliberate falsification or forgery. The continued repetition of such phrases as these referring to the Soviet Republic and the Third Internationale indicate the tenor of the questioned editorial: "Organic connection," "organic and spiritual bond," "closest tie," "spiritually and materially bound," "will give each other the maximum help," "mutual solidarity," "intellectual, moral and material...