Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granting bigger scholarships to gifted students is one step to better the situation. But alloting stipends such as the Emergency Relief Administration maximum of $20 a month is only to prolong the misery. Nothing short of an economic revolution can provide everyone with funds sufficient for proper utilization of academic opportunity. Until then, the affirmation of President Dennett of Williams deserves attention: "What appears to be needed is not more college graduates, but fewer and better ones...
...results have been disappointing. Harvard astronomers had expected the maximum show to be Wednesday night, but the shower was not large. The astronomers at Pennsylvania's observatory await the big display tonight, and it is probable that Harvard will again have observers at Oak Ridge if the weather continues to be clear...
...joined no less than 26 other States, Alaska and Hawaii, in pensioning her aged.* In six States pensions are optional with each county, which pays at least part of the cost. In the other 22, pension laws are mandatory and the aged, over 65 or 70. get from a maximum of $390 a year in New Hampshire to a minimum of $150 a year in North Dakota, provided they can prove their need...
...which she is limited by present treaties. Like Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, President Roosevelt was understood to stand firm last week on the basis of 35,000 tons as the proper size for each nation's capital ships, while Britain would like to cut this maximum...
...French bombing planes of maximum size thundering in circles all day over Belgrade made sad-eyed French President Albert Lebrun feel safer. M. le Président also had with him War Minister Marshal Pétain, a company of steel-helmeted French infantry, 200 bluejackets and 50 picked detectives of the Sûreté Nationale...