Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parentheses, are as follows: 10 meals per week, $6.75 ($7.50); 14 meals per week, $7.75 ($8.50); and 21 meals per week, $9 ($10.50). To obtain the $9 per week rate students will be obliged to sign for it in advance. This is due to the fact that the present maximum plan for counting meals has been abolished...
...terms of the new rates are fair enough. Abandoning the old "maximum plan," which counted in extra meals only to the $10.50 mark, may excite some opposition, but it can be regarded as a just measure to help support the lowered rates. Whatever halo may still hover over the roof of Lehman Hall is quickly dissipated by a consideration of the means utilized literally to compel men to sign for the twenty-one meal ticket. Twenty-one meals a week will cost nine dollars; fourteen meals would be priced at $.7.75. Between the two limits one finds seven meals...
...wing consisting of a depressible flap at the trailing edge which doubles the maximum lift and the speed range ratio...
...That 1,200 r.p.m. is the maximum efficient speed for propellers; for higher power, geared propellers of greater diameter, deeper pitch, slower speeds should be used...
...That 600 m.p.h. is the maximum speed to be hoped for with wing sections...