Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disbanding W. R. B. last fortnight, the President did not end this crisis within a crisis. But at a time when he needed a maximum of accord among those immediately around him, he did achieve at least an armistice, a lull in a war that will some time be fought to a finish...
...maximum surgical success, hundreds of delicate precautions must be observed. A surgeon should make incisions with "a deliberate sweep of the scalpel." but "the belly of the scalpel should be swept across the tissues, not pressed into them." Sutures should be of silk "so fine that it - breaks when such strain is put upon it as will cut through living tissue. . . . One-handed knots and rapidly thrown knots are unreliable. Each knot is of vital importance in the success of an operation." Fresh wounds should be sealed with silver-foil, for "silver has bactericidal qualities." A surgeon must know...
...sneered at the compulsory quotas Henry Wallace wanted them to vote and proceeded to plant a far greater acreage this year than quota allotments would have permitted. Fine weather favored the growing, and up sprouted 1,014,000,000 pounds of fat tobacco, 200 million pounds more than a maximum year's consumption...
...maximum rate of $2.50 an hour is below the $3.00 and $4.00 rate generally prevailing at the commercial tutors' in the Square...
...ages of 21 and 30 would make up the volume of American soldiers, and should, therefore, have the right to assist in voting ourselves into a war. Why can't we be represented in Washington by a separate "Youth Congress," one representative from each state with a maximum age limit of 30? Is it democratic to let the age 40 and 50 vote the death sentence for the age 20 and 30? If such a plan would be organized I am sure that we would be satisfied. Do the Youth Readers of TIME concur with...