Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heading the list are the holders of 29 National Scholarships, the highest awards made to entering Freshmen. They carry maximum stipends of $1,000 the first year and $1,200 each year thereafter...
...warned subordinate officials to shun local, State and national politics, on pain of dismissal; 2) reduced the differences between WPA wages in the South and other regions. He increased the minimum pay for common labor in the South from $19 per month to $31.20 in rural areas, the maximum in cities from $35 to $50.70, meantime readjusting rates elsewhere to hike the national average from $53 to $55.50. Even this beneficence had a shock effect on the South where WPA pay already was sufficiently above private pay (for farm hands, domestics, etc.) to make labor hard to please...
...Each of the ten indictments carries a maximum penalty of five years. Publisher Annenberg...
...seamen, bank clerks and farm association members to the rolls; 5) to obligate the Government to match States dollar for dollar up to $20 per month for old-age pensions; 6) sharply to limit the size of the old-age reserve account to three times the maximum yearly benefit payments expected in the next five years. The conferees on the bill finally killed the most controversial amendment, a proposal by Texas' Tom Connally that the Government match the States two dollars for one up to $15, an attempt to help poor States live up to pension promises...
...secret of Gamelin's military success lay largely in his old mapmaker's and landscapist's instinct for geography. Not only was he able to take the maximum advantage of terrain so as to conserve manpower, but his shrewd disposition of fire power constantly enhanced the offensive quality of his command. His many citations praised his "highest qualities of method and of inspection" and his ability to carry his objectives "in the course of a general offensive at the cost of minimum losses." The French soldier did not like him less for that and the present French...