Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engine has 14 cylinders, in two circles of seven each, one circle behind the other. The power at normal maximum is 1,000 h.p.; at "emergency" maximum, 1,150 h.p. The engine weighs 1,250 lb., or only 1.09 lb. per horsepower, a record low. Air-cooled, it has 21,000 sq. in. of cooling fin surface...
University Hall, it is reported, looks on spring's coming with a jaundiced eye. Riots, they believe, come in cycles, and it has been more than five years since the last disturbance. General warnings have been issued to proctors, and the Yard Police are organized for maximum efficiency, as could be seen in the handling of the crowd after the V. F. W. meeting...
Graduate students will benefit from the fund, for the first time by the new gift, which establishes national scholarships primarily for award to men in the graduate schools. The stipend for each of these scholarships will be adjusted to the financial resources of the recipient, with a maximum of about $1000 a year...
Mother Bannister enlivened her trial, the first for kidnapping in New Brunswick, by howling so industriously in her wooden cage that the lawyers had to shout back & forth. The jury acquitted Mrs. Bannister of kidnapping, found her guilty of extortion and of "harboring" Betty Ann, a crime involving a maximum penalty of three and a half years in jail...
...scholarships will be awarded on the same principles as the Prize Fellowships and National Scholarships, in that the stipend in each case will be adjusted to the need of the recipient. The maximum grant will be $1,000 and the minimum $200. The number of scholarships will be five or six depending upon the amount of each award. Applications must be made this spring...