Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jury took just under two hours to find Bioff and Browne (who did not testify at all) guilty of all the Government charges-racketeering, extortion, conspiracy. Possible maximum sentence on each count: ten years, $10,000 fine...
...very best indication that Japan was still shy of war was, after all, Pinch Hitter Kurusu's long, sudden hop. For the most grievous pinch in Japanese history, Japan had at least picked its likeliest pinch hitter. Fifty-four-year-old Saburo Kurusu had just about the maximum sense of the American temper possible to a patriotic, native-born Japanese. Known as the most Westernized of Japanese diplomats, he speaks English well, is an after-dinner wit in several languages. His diplomatic career has taken him to China, the Philippines, Hawaii, Chile, Italy, Greece, New York...
...most of us, education means learning how to think and not what to think. We have insisted, especially in the midst of the ideological storm of the present crisis, on the maintenance of educational standards which permit a maximum exchange of ideas, and a minimum of stereo typed, "follow-the-leader" thought. In the light of such beliefs, the oft-repeated idea of a college "morale-building" program strikes an unpleasant and unresponsive chord in the minds of those who believe in the preservation of academic liberty and in the destruction of intellectual straitjackets...
...ratings of 130 to 150 are often reported. Such confusion arises because ratings over too (the former maximum) cannot be measured against isooctane knocklessness. Best meaning of " 110 octane" is 110 on the extrapolated power-octane scale. But "no octane" sometimes loosely means 10% more powerful than 100 octane-or the equivalent of only 10? octane on the extrapolated scale...
...first step was taken last spring, after the U.S. State Department had called in short-wave broadcasters to arrange maximum world reception for a speech by President Roosevelt (TIME, May 26). The industry saw the drift, hired a liaison man in the person of Stanley P. Richardson, old A.P. correspondent, onetime secretary to Ambassador Joseph E. Davies in Russia and Belgium. Through Stan Richardson the broadcasters learned what the Government wanted, and vice versa. What the Government wanted, it soon moved...