Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statistically, NRA was on the verge of a significant retreat: from a maximum 600 codes affecting 22,000,000 workers to about 320 codes affecting some...
...whips out solutions at the rate of four per hour. Mr. Travis thinks the machine may solve astronomy's knotty "three-body problem."* Professor Charles DeVan Fawcett, the machine's enthusiastic impresario and financial nurse since its inception, believes it will calculate the factors of maximum efficiency in airplane stabilizers, automatic temperature control, radio, television, "wirephotos," high-speed induction motors...
...contact with the disk. Governed by precisely controlled friction, the speed of the small wheel is the crucial factor in solving any problem. A bevel gearing delivers that factor to the "answer table" where the factors from all the integrators are combined and the final solution appears with a maximum error...
That is not true. Each students's application was considered on the basis of the prices which he offered. If rooms could not be provided at or below the maximum price offered, the student's application was rejected. In a few cases--not more than a half dozen--large groups were notified that their application was endangered because of the impossibility of fitting in one or two individuals at or below the maximum offered, In no case, however, was the assignment made unless those individuals expressed a willingness to raise their maxima...
Aside from the element of the maximum price which the student could pay for his accommodations, the Central Committee in apportioning the applicants among the Houses gave chief consideration to placing the men in Houses where they could be assigned to tutors. Through the cooperation of the Masters and of Head Tutors in each field of concentration, the Committee had been provided with the number of new students who could be given tutors in each House...