Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farm Board's sales began to exceed the 5.000,000 bu. per month which it had pledged as its maximum. In order to keep its pledge and not outsell farmers and cooperatives, it re-entered the futures market and bought back enough to average its books down to the 5,000,000 bu. limit...
...were: all kinds of grains, rice, flour, meal, hay, alfalfa, straw, cotton, fresh fruits not mentioned above, potatoes, peas, beans, flaxseed, sugar beets, horses, cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, logs, fuel wood, railroad ties, excelsior, sawdust. No increases would be permitted on any carload to exceed by 10% the present maximum rates...
Snorkey did not think Judge Wilkerson would give him the maximum penalty. He grinned in all directions around the courtroom, then got to his feet, hurried to an elevator, descended to the street, jumped into a waiting automobile and disappeared into the sprawling city whose thousands of illicit night haunts were his Empire...
...students in the field of English literature by an officer in the English department suggests both practical and considerable revision of the Divisional Examinations in that field. It has long been thought that too short a time is allowed for the writing of those examinations, three hours being the maximum. Considering the fact that the background of four years is supposed to be represented in that paper, the suggestion to lengthen the period of examination is certain common sense. Three hours to talk of five centuries of prose and poetry appears at first glance the method of an illiberal rather...
...poorer element. The present overcrowding in the legal profession forces many men to resort to unscrupulous practices. The existence of a situation such as this is made possible by the comparatively low requirements for permission to practice existing in many states; while the law school may set the maximum standard, the minimum is determined by the laws of these states. It is the duty of the law schools to make standards as high as possible, but it is just as much the office of the governments to maintain the minimum requirements at a sufficiently high level, by supervising more carefully...