Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that would take him from the Statue of Liberty to his polling place at Hyde Park by way of Wilkes-Barre. Harrisburg, Camden, Wilmington, Washington, Brooklyn. Madison Square Garden and a microphone in Poughkeepsie. Only sense in this zig-zag itinerary was that it would take him through a maximum number of places where the New Deal needed votes...
...Federal district court, answer charges of misbehavior on his Eastern Shore estate last duck-hunting season. The triple-barreled charge: 1) failure to plug his repeating shotgun to three-shell capacity; 2) failure to have a Federal stamp on his hunting license; 3) shooting over a baited area. Maximum penalty on each count: $500 fine, six months' imprisonment...
...most dramatic moment of last, week was really no miracle at all. In piling up a record which, with a victory over Michigan this week, will equal Notre Dame's record string of 20 in a row, Minnesota has become famed as a team that does not reach maximum efficiency until the second half of its games. A decade ago Minnesota teams were feared solely for the Norse power supplied to them by the huge muscular Swedes with which they were amply staffed. The current increase in Minnesota's football prestige (the team was unofficially ranked as national...
...practical purposes political dictator of the Islands, released 30 Sakdalistas convicted for their part in the 1935 uprising and issued an executive order raising the minimum pay of laborers hired by the Government to 30 pesos ($15) a month. Last week the National Assembly was considering minimum wage and maximum hour laws aggressively pressed by Philippine Labor...
...other automobile deaths. The two lines wobbled along, moving up and down from index 0 to index 115, but always their courses were almost exactly parallel. Each line fluctuated regularly with the seasons. As automobile deaths increased from the annual low in January or February to the midsummer maximum, they were accompanied by a similar rise in the consumption of liquor. Year's peaks were reached in the football season just before the Christmas holidays...