Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard before. Bringing the now familiar events up to the fateful "00:30 [12:30 a. m.] 4, April," he read: "A very sharp gust struck the ship. It seemed to be much more severe than any I have ever experienced in that it was exerted so suddenly ... a maximum force in two or three seconds. 1 noted immediately that the lower rudder-control rope had carried away." Then the upper control rope went. Then the man at the elevator controls calling out laconically "800 feet . . . 300 feet." ... I sighted the waves through the window and gave the order...
...trouble save that rather pleasant one of inebriety has been generally glossed over. The control measure itself was passed at the last minute, after the legislators, doddering cheerfully along in pursuit of such problems as the feasibility of serving beer withing 400 feet of a church, had wasted a maximum of time and had thrown the press and populace into confusion. When the bill appeared finally, it was found to contain such elfin provisions as that forbidding beer drinking in a standing position; beer arrived, but sorely hampered...
...returned to Purnea with a report of "reasonably satisfactory" flying conditions in the Everest vicinity. That was all the Britons were waiting for. The two specially built Westland planes, shipped by boat from England and powered with supercharged Bristol Pegasus radial motors whose propellers had been torqued to provide maximum power development at 13,000 ft., were rolled out at 8:25 on Lalbalu airdrome. Into one stepped Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale. To focus the motion picture camera, fixed, electrically heated and aimed blind earthward, Col. L. V. S. Blacker, Wartime aviator, climbed into the fuselage...
...seemed almost as though the British Government were copying the famed Soviet propaganda trials of Moscow. Having attracted the maximum attention to the young Highlander by locking him up in a museum, the Government held the great treason trial not in a room in the War Office but out in the middle of a drill hall. Except when special witnesses were being examined, the Press was admitted; there were plenty of seats for the public. President of the court was Major General Winston Dugan, a former aide-de-camp of King George. On either side of him sat three other...
...removed and the trial proceeded. In a two-and-a-half-hour speech, the Prosecutor, Major Harold Shapcott, outlined the Government's case. Because Britain is not at war Lieut. Baillie-Stewart's life was not at stake, but there were ten charges against him. with a maximum penalty of 140 years in jail. On the plea that he was studying for staff college examinations, he had borrowed from the Aldershot Military Library the specifications and photographs of an experimental tank and a new automatic rifle for infantry, also notes on the organization of tank and armored...