Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprinter at top speed, 21 mi. per hour; of a good racehorse on a mile and a quarter course, 36 mi. per hour; average speed of a homing pigeon, 60 mi. per hour; of a dummy falling out of an airplane with an unopened parachute, 118 mi. per hour (maximum by Army tests necessitating a 1,200 ft. fall...
...school for coxswains, to be under the direction of F. S. Holmes '32, is open to Freshmen and to members of the three upper classes. "One hundred and thirty pounds." Holmes says, "may be taken as the average maximum weight, but there have been 'varsity coxswains of 135 pounds. No experience is needed: only a few preparatory schools have crews, and not all of these send their coxswains to Harvard. As a result very few experienced men report, and so all will be on an equal footing. Each year the supply of coxswains is taxed to the utmost...
...average student. Also boys of excellent character, though obviously unfitted for scholastic attainments, strain during their whole school life to get into college and then find it most difficult to stay there. The results are that the American universities no longer develop the best minds to their maximum degree, and many men who are not fitted for a scholarly life waste several years in attempting it, and often only succeed in losing some of their self-respect...
...vibrations continued for over three hours, with a maximum displacement of 1-100 of an inch...
...insure their lives and who are intending to make a gift to the Harvard Fund the combining of the two into a single transaction becomes an ideal solution. The contributions are made with the minimum of effort on the part of the individual and the fund gains a maximum of return. It is my very real belief that the Council's opposition to the Insurance Plan has been because it has never had the insurance Plan fully explained. Yours very truly. Douglas Lawson...