Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producing about 150 a year as a total. All graduates who have obtained degrees have positions and positions were never lacking even during the depression." The School was established as an experiment in 1922 and was planned on a small basis the report explained, and even today a maximum of only 50 students a year can be accomodated as candidates for degrees. Of the 551 students at the school since its founding 251 were from the United States and 230 from foreign countries...
Harvard will uphold the affirmative side of the proposition: "Resolved, That the federal government should be empowered to regulate maximum hours and minimum wages in industry...
Byrno and Sullivan will uphold the affirmative side of the proposition, "Resolved. That the federal government should be empowered to regulate maximum hours and minimum wages in industry...
...Army's flood control plan (General Jadwin's plan modified) was to provide protection from the maximum possible flood. Army Engineers and the Weather Bureau calculated this "superflood" by taking the maximum known flood of each of the Mississippi's great tributaries and assuming that they all hit the main river at once-which they have never done...
...five-inch lamp, no bigger than a clinical thermometer, gives a maximum of 80,000 candlepower. A lamp of this length requires 8,000 volts (1,600 volts for each inch) but the current is only 1.5 amperes. Physicist Bol believes his little tubes will be useful for lighting airports, cinema projection, treatment of skin diseases. He has leased manufacturing rights to General Electric Co. and Philips Glow Lamp Co. of Holland, declared last week that two motion picture companies had approached him with offers. Cost figures were concealed last week but a Bol intimate said they were "ridiculously...