Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week after a ten-point decline and subsequent rise the industrial averages were again at 147. And again Governor Eccles spoke, this time not in person but through the Federal Reserve Board, not by word but by action. Without warning, the Reserve Board boosted margin requirements from a maximum of 45% to 55%. Applying only to new purchases, not to securities already in an account, the new rule is effective...
...conditions on Mt. Washington yesterday listed a minimum temperature of minus four degrees, with the maximum only six points higher. There was 15 inches of snow on the summit, while the depth at Pinkham Notch was 46 1/2 inches...
...Pastoral Letter challenges flatly the Act of 1934 making compulsory throughout Mexico education of a Socialist type, including explanation by grade school teachers of the care and use of sexual organs. Against this, in the case of young children, the abhorrence of the Church is maximum. Further, last week's Pastoral Letter explicitly declared that for a Catholic to be a Socialist, or study or teach Socialism, or cooperate to Socialist ends, or even for appearance's sake to feign to approve Socialism, is to commit a "mortal...
...increasing emphasis placed on research call for a substantial number of fellowships with adequate stipends," said Dean Clifford. "For effective work the number of students should be kept small. An enrollment of two hundred to two hundred and fifty men of highest ability is suggested as the maximum permissible. To provide opportunity for a selected group of outstanding students, there should be available at least twenty-five fellowships paying an annual stipend of fourteen hundred dollars or more, and an equal number of scholarships covering tuition. The fact that Harvard is to lead the way in graduate study and that...
...choice of being hanged. A severe flogging smashed a man; he was ill for weeks after it, and rarely recovered his self-respect if he originally had any good in him. The Regulations did certainly lay down that a dozen strokes on the bare back was to be the maximum, but nobody took any notice of the rule; two or three dozen were usual, a hundred common, while the infliction of 300 was by no means rare...