Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grant, which will be in effect for the next five years, provides for an outright bequest of $200,000, and beyond this a maximum of $100,000 to be matched by the Rockefeller Fund against whatever the committee receives through gifts, the government, or other sources...
...nation's problems. The announcement of the scholarships is supported by an eloquent warning against sectionalism. Another passage deserves the widest reading. While appreciating the importance of state and municipal universities, the opinion is expressed that "during the years to come it is possible that universities which have a maximum degree of independence from governmental support will fulfill a role of special significance in the maintenance of intellectual freedom...
...universities must take part in the effort to extend knowledge and in the work of preparing young men to meet the problems of their day. But during the years to come, it is possible that universities which have a maximum degree of independence from governmental support will fulfill a role of special significance in the maintenance of intellectual freedom...
Rome heard that Premier Mussolini, while still agreeable to maximum League exploitation for electioneering purposes, and while still standing on his public pledge not to reply to merely economic and fiscal sanctions with acts of war, demanded last week public retraction from London of what virtually the whole European Press was saying, namely that 147 British warships anchored on Italy's war flanks meant in substance: "Stanley Baldwin is out for Benito Mussolini's hide and that means the Dictator is through." This British massing of war boats, the Italian Government spokesman pointed out, was ordered by London...
Four 'long week-ends', the maximum number possible, feature the vacation schedule this year...