Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifty billion mark offer as a basis of settlement, or whether France will ask for the cessation of passive resistance before any offer can be considered. As a small offer would be unacceptable to the French and Belgians, and the Germans know this, the larger amount, representing the maximum sum Germany will be able to pay, is sure to be brought forward sooner or later. The Germans would simply use the small offer, not as a ballon d'essai, but as a means of inaugurating direct negotiations...
...short stop before University Hall proved uneventful, and the marchers; thereupon, moved in the direction of Widener Library where they had spent their chief hours of labor preparing for the examinations. It was at this point that the parade reached its maximum of enthusiasm and attracted a large crowd of interested onlookers, including some newspaper reporters and photographers. Joining in the enthusiasm of the occasion, the crowd lent its assistance as the parade, with the band still in the lead, marched to Mt. Auburn Street and gradually was dissipated into small groups, which wandered back to the Yard...
...heat radiated by that body, and that from one day to the next the differential may be as much as two or three percent of the total. It has also been observed, however, that the oscillations occur in a fairly regular manner, and that the phenomena of maximum or minimum heat recur in periods of about 11 years. This length of time is intimately connected with the number of 'sun spots', the radiation varying directly with the amount of solar disturbance indicated by the gaseous eruptions, or spots...
Consider this: heavy crews invariably arrive at top speed slowly; Freshman crews invariably reach their maximum development early-and often "burn out" afterwards (take warning, Freshmen!); the University is very heavy; the Freshman crew is unusually uniform in height and weight, and is consequently able to get together quickly. Who can be sure how they will compare in two weeks...
...first Cabinet meeting following President Harding's return from Florida, Secretary Mellon renewed his suggestion that surtaxes and incomes be scaled down from a maximum of 50% to a maximum of 25%. His argument was that the previous reduction of maximum surtaxes from 65% to 50% had resulted in an increase of $70,000,000 in income tax returns for the first three months of 1923. He also presented statistics that of the total income tax revenue only about 6% is derived from surtaxes above...