Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary nova is a star which flares up suddenly, usually increasing its brightness by several thousand times in a few days; then it fades, in a month or two, to about half its maximum brightness, passing through several different physical stages, as revealed by its spectrum...
Charles F. Brooks, professor of Meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, attributed the freak weather to a current of tropical air flowing north from the Gulf Stream. He reported a maximum wind velocity of 71 miles an hour at the Observatory...
General Electric Co.'s laboratories in Schenectady last week demonstrated (see cut, p. 23) a tiny magnet, about the size of a pellet of buckshot, holding aloft a five pound flatiron. The magnet weighs about one-sixteenth of an ounce. The maximum ratio of lifted load to magnet weight is 1,500 to i, highest in the annals of engineering. Thus General Electric's mighty mite is the most powerful permanent magnet on record...
...though holding the patent system largely responsible for the great U. S. fertility of inventions, Commissioner Coe had suggestions for improving the laws. Most important: 1) creation of a single court of patent appeals; 2) reduction from 44 to 20 years of the maximum period "between the filing of an application and the expiration of the resultant patent...
...professor who, at the death of his wife, gives way to drink and inertia. An accident of ward politics makes this picturesque bum of crucial importance in a municipal election. How this situation affects him and his lively little son and daughter is revealed by Director Kanin with a maximum of warm, perceptive humor, a decent minimum of emotional climaxes...