Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commodity prices, which have risen sky-high in the last six years, cracked last week. Down, with a resounding crash, tumbled King Cotton. On Tuesday cotton futures fell as much as $2.05 a bale. Next day they flopped $10 a bale, the maximum under exchange rules. In the next two days, prices continued to plummet, $10 a day. On Saturday, the panicky New York Cotton Exchange closed. Chicago and New Orleans followed suit...
...problem lies in the fact that a wartime minimum has become a peacetime maximum. The Administrative Board, faced with unparalleled enrollments and equally large numbers of applications for admission, has tried to spread educational benefits as widely as possible, permitting waivers of war service credits in only a few exceptional cases. A diluted education, however, is no substitute for the real article, especially since so many of today's students have already had their educations interrupted and misshapen by the events of the past six years. Accepting war service credits should be a matter of choice, rather than of compulsion...
...pursuit of beauty, the attainment by "great souls" of the maximum "passional love," still seemed to him "the wonder of civilization." His own ardor was overshadowed by his egotism, his thirst for glory and prestige under the Emperor. "I looked superb," he noted one day during this glittering period, "my hair done in thick black curls, my face fine; cravat, jabot, two vests-superb; breeches of cashmere . . . noble and assured carriage...
Following this signal drill and further work on pass defense and offense, Coach Henry Lamar brought his Freshman forces on the scene to run through Coast Guard plays, with the Varsity defending. Judging from this workout, the crowd at Soldiers Field Saturday will be treated to a maximum of Coastie passing plays featuring single and double flankers from the "T" formation...
Freshmen now move through the Harvard Union lines with maximum speed and minimum waits, but they still have ample time to enjoy the appetizing side-show put on by students dumping trays on the way out. With rare insight into the psychology of hunger, the Union management has arranged for trays to be dumped under the noses of incoming lines, and the gradually growing piles of half-consumed food made slushy by left-over gravy is a pre-meal feature wondrous to behold...