Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three of their best players, sustained two more in the playoffs when their star defenseman, Ebbie Goodfellow, and star goalie, Norman Smith, both went on the sidelines (TIME, April 5). A rookie team which nosed out the feeble Chicago Blackhawks for third place, the Rangers did not reach maximum efficiency until, when the season was over, they won four games in a row in two preliminary playoff series. Against the Red Wings, the Rangers stretched their string to five, lost the second game, won the third. Red Wing heroes of the last two games in addition to Lewis, onetime...
...including the wage scale and the hours of work, in the automotive industry and in General Motors, are such that the automobile worker stands as the most favored of all workers in American industry. . . . Then what was the real objective [of the strike] ? . . . The purpose was to obtain the maximum possible recognition, carrying with it the greatest degree of power with a view to controlling, not only the workers within General Motors, but of the entire automotive industry and ultimately, so far as possible, all workers employed in mass producing industry...
This makes a total of thirty-one young men from various colleges who have been appointed Junior Fellows at Harvard since the founding of the Society in 1933. At present there are twenty Junior Fellows, the maximum being twenty-four...
...explanation : "We may perhaps think of the two rises in the curve as associated respectively with increasing tension from the life-problems of sexual adjustment and adjustments to old age, while the low level in middle life would reflect lessening of sexual tensions, relative remoteness of sexual possibilities, maximum earning power, and relative remoteness of in, capacitating...
...mean what the World Series means to professional baseball. The difference is that the playoffs achieve their point much less directly. If the Stanley Cup were awarded to the winner of the series between the two teams that led their respective divisions of the National Hockey League, the maximum number of games in the playoffs would be five. What happens instead is that all but the two worst of the league's eight teams engage in a complex round-robin of which the most noteworthy feature is that it provides for a maximum of 19 games. This scheme pleases...