Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...test was a modified form of a similar plane that won the Pulitzer race at Detroit last year. It does not attain quite the enormous speeds made in the race, because military equipment has to be carried. But it is the fastest fighting plane in the world with a maximum speed of 171.7 miles per hour...
Connecticut as well as Massachusetts apparently faces the necessity of a state university. Yale has reached its maximum capacity and Wesleyan and Trinity are approaching that point. It has been suggested that the Connecticut Agricultural College may, under the state laws, expand into the arts field...
...decree was issued providing for a thorough comb-out of all government departments with a view to cutting State expenditure. Persons over 65 or those who have had 40 years' service will be retired on pension. Power is given to Ministers to dispense with all employees not giving maximum satisfaction. The Army and Navy and other government military organizations are exempted. The railways will be dealt with later in a special decree. Abroad-Mussolini, referring to the newspaper campaign in favor of a Franco-Italian alliance, said that the Fascista Government neither agreed with nor authorized such a movement...
Mexican Consuls in the United States have been instructed to make public the fact that in Yucatan divorces can be obtained with and without cause at a maximum cost...
...program of France suicidal, as Professor Young states it, because, instead of accepting a plan which gives the opportunity of raising the maximum reparations payments after a long period of time, she prefers another by which she hopes to collect something immediately if it works well...