Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...married women, and the Roman Catholic citizens are told that "Birth Control is against God's Law." Yet the birth rates in these two states are among the lowest in the country, and before the war were lower than those of France-about one-third of the physiological maximum. Obviously the majority of the people in both states practice birth control regardless of legal restrictions and religious taboos...
...Other specialists will watch the sun. During totality, the sun's glowing corona will show up in all its splendor, to be photographed many times in both black & white and in color. The scientists hope that they can work out the suspected relation between sunspots (now near a maximum) and changes in the corona...
...satisfactory school district, as the commission defines it, has a minimum of 1,200 pupils, a maximum of 10.000. Each school in the district should have at least 300 students, who travel not more than 45 minutes or an hour to get there.* In elementary schools there should be at least one teacher per grade; in high schools, at least twelve teachers in all (some of them specialists: music, art, etc.). The commission would call no district satisfactory unless 90% of the students stuck until high-school graduation ("Farm boys & girls get from two to four years' less schooling...
Current treatment of those behind in their University obligations seems calculated to obtain the maximum bitterness. More consideration towards the student would show equal results with less resentment...
Faced with the problem of heavily financed or obstreperous Student Council election campaigns the Council set the limit of ten dollars as the maximum which any candidate or his supporters can spend in electioneering. No stipulation was made as to the manner in which the ten dollars can be spent. "They can swallow goldfish if they think the intelligence of the average voter is low enough to be influenced by that kind of campaigning," said Council chairman Richard G. Axt '46 at the end of the meeting...