Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thus the maximum term of any President would be ten years to the day. Gibed the Democrats: the Republicans had finally, and posthumously, been able to defeat Franklin D. Roosevelt for a third term. (The amendment would also have prevented the Republicans' Teddy Roosevelt from seeking re-election in 1912, since he had served more than three years of President McKinley's unexpired term...
Imposed by the Dean's office, the only limitation on the dance planners is an $800 maximum for the band engaged. "We would hesitate before granting that much money, however," said Council Treasurer Edric A. Weld '46 yesterday...
...Maximum Airport Utilization). The White method is something like the traffic system used in New York subways...
Under these scorching deserts lies an ocean of oil, the fabulous wealth of the Arabian Nights. The ocean contains a minimum of 26 billion barrels (1¼ times the proved reserves of the U.S.), a maximum of 150 billion barrels. How much is this worth? In cash, enough to make a hundred Rockefellers; as a military asset, as nations count, it is beyond price...
...some of whom have been teaching regularly for ten years.) And it attacked the seniority system (which is vociferously backed by teacher groups) by putting all promotions after six years of teaching on a merit basis. Said Dewey's committee: "For too long, promotion from beginning pay to maximum pay has been automatic...