Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actual sum that I am trying to raise to turn over to the life insurance company is $17,907. However, the Class must take into consideration that I have assumed these payments over a ten year period in order that the maximum possible number of the Class should be able to contribute through some plan within their means. The experience of previous classes proves that the raising of any such sum as $17,907 in one year is out of all proportion to the ability of the Class to make such contributions...
...oxygen for breathing. The longest delayed jump was from a height of 11,000 ft. The experimenter pulled his rip cord at 2,000 ft. The cloth chute opened with a report that was heard for miles around. His body had been falling at 20 m. p. h., the maximum speed that a man's body attains in a free fall...
...results: Maximum degree of interest for nurses was 33%; for pedagogs, 19%. Lamented Professor Kitson: "Several stated bluntly that their interest was at the zero point. Such workers are in a most unhappy plight and constitute a serious menace to the effectiveness of their professional group...
...limitation. It remained for the Mississippi State Senate to take the first definite step in that direction by passing a bill (the House had yet to act) providing that no grower could plant more than 60% of his total crop acreage in any one year in cotton, under a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine or three months in the county jail. Mississippi does not, however, intend to cut its cotton production singlehanded. Its law would become effective only when other Southern States producing a total of ten million bales should vote to apply a similar restriction to cotton...
...March 3). In the 1928 campaign Alfred Emanuel Smith proposed changes in the Volstead Act to permit a higher percentage of alcohol in beverages in the discretion of the States. Thus, by his proposal, one State might permit no alcohol whatever, another State two, three, or ten percent, the maximum to be determined by Federal law. Other anti-prohibitors have clamored for 2.75% beer or for light (i. e. 9%) wines. Still other shrewd opponents of the 18th Amendment insisted on its most severe and cruel enforcement as a means of rendering it odious...