Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ownership. "The large private power networks within TVA transmission range depend for operating efficiency on a relatively small number of the larger cities. A campaign Which would result in public ownership in ten to 20 of these cities might practically destroy the ability of the large systems to render maximum service or to maintain economical generation and transmission systems. Effort to bring about such disruption seems to be under way. . . . Private companies should cease coercion, in the form of obstructive litigation, inaccurate and misleading propaganda. . . . Public officials should cease coercion, as by subsidies to duplicating and competing systems, by threats...
...wrangle which might well have taken place was postponed in deference to haste. Only major Senate action was to strip the resolution of its eloquent whereases to clauses forbidding shipment of arms to civil-warring Spain, provide a $10,000 fine and five years in prison as maximum penalty for disobedience. It was passed...
...Reflected Glory" means Tallulsh Bankhead's glory reflected upon Tallulah Bankhead. Most commendably, however, Miss Bankhead's star is made to shine, not through the familiar expedient of excluding capable support, but rather through the skillful writing of George Kelly, with the maximum of adaptation to the peculiar talents of a peculiar artist. The actress is cast as an actress, and that leads to all sorts of dainty nuances. Sometimes Miss Bankhead acts the conscious actress, sometimes the unconscious actress, and sometimes she just acts...
Particulars of the pact were of minimum importance compared to the maximum import of its having been signed at all. In British and Italian quarters its phrasing was called "deliberately loose," the object of this being to permit the British Cabinet to keep the boiling antiFascism of Laborites in the House of Commons from unduly effervescing. Even so the London Daily Worker came out with a cartoon in which an extremely virile Benito Mussolini peers out over a Roman balcony toward a lawn on which an extremely effeminate Anthony Eden dances toward him in diaphanous costume, finger crooked coyly...
Since then a new line, probably caused by a known element in a highly excited energy state, had appeared in the red zone of the spectrum, and two sodium lines had increased in brightness, reaching a maximum in December and disappearing on Christmas Eve. On Christmas night there were new sodium lines. "I had to leave them to come here," said Dr. Cherrington. "I don't know what has been going on up there since." Some 40 novae have been found since 1900, but they were all much fainter and farther away than Gamma Cassiopeiae...