Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With over 10,000 of all Eire's teachers donating a tenth of their pay to the cause, Dublin's 1,200-odd primary-school teachers were content to wait it out all summer if necessary. Vaguely promised a raise in salary (present maximum for men: $1,900) since December 1944, they were determined to get it. Present salaries, said the teachers' union, were not "in accordance with the dignity of the profession." Cried Dublin's dignified teachers, we just can't live on the money...
...view of the 1939 Committee of Eight, in its belief that "the future of tutoring at Harvard should not be a mere by-product of changes made for reasons of finance or personnel, but should be judged in its own right and planned with a view to the maximum efficiency...
Bombs & Scrap Iron. At most plants, the experts found that the bombs which had been dropped were too light for maximum destruction. Incendiaries were sprinkled only sparingly on the inviting wreckage of fuel dumps. So many bombs were duds that one bomber in six which fought its way from England to Germany and back actually delivered nothing more devastating than a load of scrap iron...
...maximum of $24 a year, the average Blue Cross subscriber, or any member of his family, gets: 1) 30 days semiprivate care in the hospital; 2) an additional period (variable according to locale) at half cost; 3) all meals, including special diets; 4) operating room and anesthesia; 5) electrocardiograms, physical therapy and routine lab tests. Membership cards are honored throughout the U.S., and farther. One member recently collected a refund for an operation performed five years ago in Tokyo...
...found many departments where tutorial has been cut below the maximum allowable under the Faculty ruling of last December. In some, Sophomores will in the future be excluded from tutorial; in others, the Faculty's honors candidacy criterion has been further narrowed by excluding from honors candidacy, and hence from tutorial, all men below Group III. Several departments have abolished tutorial altogether...