Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission announced that it would consider 6% instead of 7% ( a maximum fair return on the investments of the 4,200 public utility companies under its jurisdiction "so long as the present economic conditions exist." All companies which earned more than 6% last year will be ordered to cut their rates to bring profits down to that figure...
...Editorial competition will have a maximum duration of eight weeks, but candidates may be elected to the Editorial Board as soon as they show adequate ability in any length or time under eight weeks...
...eating soup with a knife. . . . The death of a Turkish bridge or rail, machine or gun, or high explosive was more profitable to us than the death of a Turk. . . . We could not afford casualties. . . . Our ideal was to keep his railways just working, but only just, with the maximum of loss and discomfort to him. . . . We used the smallest force in the quickest time at the farthest place...
Norway, Estonia. "Latvia?" "Certainly. Latvia too." He confessed so handsomely that he may get the minimum sentence of two years, four years less than the maximum. Less hopeful were the 28 others being examined with him last week...
...beneficial results. This is the sort of logic upon which was based the old system of restrictions and regulations of all sorts. Dr. Eliot devoted himself to a destruction of this philosophy and the substitution of the current principles which place responsibility upon the individual and allow him maximum freedom to exercise his personal preferences. Compulsory physical exercise is in direct contradiction to this modern climate of opinion and should be abandoned. Freshmen should be offered facilities for exercise in informal groups such as those which now participate in House sports. Such an informal program has the added practical advantage...