Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...else can with the nature and needs of man,--of man the individual, because it leaves each individual free as nothing else can to rise to the very limit of his powers and character; of man in the mass, the community or state, because after opening to each the maximum incentive to usefulness and wisdom, it enables all, as nothing else can, to profit by the wisdom of the wisest...
Carving a wide white scar up & down Detroit's Lake St. Clair one morning last week roared brown-hulled Miss America X, her four Packard motors tuning up within 200 r. p. m. of their maximum 2,700. Timers clocked the flying wedge of smoke and spray at an average of 124.91 m. p. h. for two statute miles-a new world's record, 5.16 m. p. h. faster than Kaye Don's time in Miss England III last spring on Loch Lomond. Climbing out of his boat, the old silver fox of U. S.-speed-boating...
...wells to open wells, production was in hand last week. But enforcing proration has become increasingly difficult and the State's commissioners were reported almost ready to give up. Production in the East Texas field showed a tendency to mount despite the railroad commission's fixing a maximum "allowable"' for every well. Oilmen saw East Texas as their danger spot...
...with glaring white trim. Leningrad's central ticket office was repainted three times in different color schemes until the Soviet was satisfied that it is "right." Civic gangs of plumbers and carpenters trailed after the painters, fixing people's water faucets, floors, roofs at inconvenient times with maximum gusto...
...more architecture than a piano is music" was a model of a queer pearshaped house hung on a pole, exhibited in Manhattan for the first time last week. It was the latest development of Richard Buckminster Fuller's famed "dymaxion house" (from "dynamics" and "maximum service...