Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fever is one of the body's ways of killing germs. For every germ there is a maximum temperature above which it cannot live. Experimentally, doctors are trying to raise body temperature above the germ-death heat by injecting fever-causing germs or nonspecific proteins, or by electricity. Dr. Sutton, having noted her patient's recovery from St. Vitus's Dance after a poison-produced fever, took a chance on another St. Vitus child by injecting typhoid serum. This second case grew feverish, sweated, recovered. She tried typhoid-paratyphoid serum on another. He too sweated and recovered...
...order to an area that almost ruined mid-continent fields with low prices (TIME, Aug 31 et ante). Each East Texas well was allowed to run off not more than 225 bbl. per day.* The Commission's order was expected to cut in half the field's maximum "wild" production of 738,000 bbl. per day. Guardsmen stayed in East Texas to see that proration was obeyed...
...position has been dictated by the determination to keep standards of living, unemployment pay and such like at the maximum possible...
...week called white-collar folk "the greatest unnursed group of a community." To meet the needs of such "unnursed," the nurses are experimenting with service by the hour. Although the nurse thus is relegated to the catch-as-catch-can employment of an apartment housemaid, she may earn a maximum of $2 or $3 an hour...
...opening night, Producer Carroll appeared attired in a rumpled tan smock and wearing earphones through which he had been listening to the performance. He said something about wanting to give people a big show for a maximum admission of $3. He introduced his backer, Banker William Reynolds Edrington of Fort Worth. Tex. and Manhattan, president of Edrington-Minot Corp. and Edrington Investment Co. It was as a consequence of a birthday party which Producer Carroll gave Banker Edrington that Producer Carroll was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary for perjury in 1927. It was also as a consequence of the birthday party...