Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their natural craving for the artistic with a minimum of time and energy spent. The congenial atmosphere of the Common Room, in contrast to the air of formality which pervades Fogg, or any other museum of art, places the observer at his case, and permits him to derive a maximum of pleasure from the exhibit. Furthermore the popularity of the Common Room has been increased: thus intercourse between men of the house is stimulated, and an opportunity for forming new friendships provided...
...frequent passings of the bottle and then took niblicks, spades, and pickaxes and went out looking for the fraternity snow statuary. Men had put hours of devoted effort into creating fragile dazzling white figures, with every shading of form, illumination and position carefully planned to create an effect of maximum beauty. That meant nothing to the forthright five; they smashed them all: Theta Chi's lovely Snow Girl, the majestic statue of Elcazar on the Green, and all the rest. It seems so childish, and so utterly unnecessary; a small, sour-souled thing...
Conviction of second degree murder in Hawaii calls for a maximum penalty of life imprisonment at hard labor. Under a gentleman's agreement all noncapital offenses involving Naval personnel in Hawaii are tried by court martial. Rear Admiral Stirling advised the Navy Department that "undoubtedly" the grand jury's action was taken under the belief that the defendants, including Mrs. Fortescue, would ultimately come to the Navy, not to the civil courts, for justice. Meantime, the prisoners were released from the U. S. S. Alton at Pearl Harbor, put on probation under bail which...
...fund is accrued equalling $75 per eligible worker. Ineligible are workers earning more than $1,500 per year. When an employe is laid off for reasons other than his own, a trade dispute or an act of God, he may draw up to $10 per week for a maximum of ten weeks. The plan may operate voluntarily if 175,000 workers are placed within its scope before June...
...Arbor, Mich., Ed and Manuel Smith waited in jail 107 days to be tried for simple larceny, carrying a maximum penalty of 90 days. A judge credited them with 17 days each on the next sentence they receive...