Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murderous couple's luck had run out; suspicious neighbors called the cops. At week's end, Ray and Martha, having told their brutal story, were waiting to see whether they would be tried in Michigan, where the maximum penalty is a life sentence, or would be extradited to New York to face the electric chair. Blubbered Martha: "I love him." Said sly little Ray: "I'm kind. I'm really kind at heart. But they should kill that woman...
...exposure, the Palomar telescope recorded all that had ever been caught at Mt. Wilson. As the exposures were lengthened, fainter and more distant objects were found in constantly increasing numbers. An exposure of one hour brought in the "background," the shine of the night sky, and thus represented the maximum power of the telescope. To judge by the number of faint nebulae on it, this photograph reached one billion light-years (6 billion trillion miles) into space-twice as far as man had ever looked before. Said Hubble: "The tests confirm our previous conclusion that the Hale telescope...
...Congress to authorize a 3,000-mile guided-missile range (TIME, Feb. 28). They say that the White Sands range (150 miles long) is already much too small. This week's feat proved it. If the two-stage rocket had been fired at the proper angle for maximum range, instead of nearly straight up, the WAC Corporal would probably have landed something like 500 miles from the firing point...
...generation of quibbling, cult-minded, critical cognoscenti has called New Orleans jazz many things, from "a rich and frequently dissonant polyphony" to "this dynamism [which] interprets life at its maximum intensity." But Louis grins wickedly and says: "Man, when you got to ask what is it, you'll never get to know." In his boyhood New Orleans, jazz was simply a story told in strongly rhythmic song, pumped out "from the heart" with a nervous, exciting beat. To Trumpeter Louis, jazz is still storytelling: "I like to tell them things that come naturally...
...first postwar edition of the Freshman Register will be ready for distribution Monday--just five months later than is necessary for maximum usefulness. The Register includes pictures of all incoming freshmen along with information on the home town and college address of each. It could help materially in solving the freshman's initial problems of meeting his classmates and of associating names with places and faces. The Register can serve this purpose only if it is available early in the fall term, preferably at freshman registration...