Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCurdy ran his own melodramatic race against Yale in an attempt to groom these two runners in time for the meet. Although the Crimson lost by a point, he succeeded in squeezing the maximum possible effort from his team...
...keep within the maximum height allowed by Cambridge zoning regulations, the architects have sunk the buildings into a court which is four feet below ground level. President Pusey commended Shepley, Bullfinch for having "conceived a pleasing design which makes excellent use of the limited space...
According to Sewall, the Scholars of the House program is part of the present tendency in American education to encourage and foster independence and initiative in college students. The program is based on the theory that, for those students with exceptional ability and maturity, "nothing short of a maximum challenge will evoke a maximum response...
...play's prison-cell setting is not only the pulpit for the exposition of Genet's peculiar theology. Our emotional involvement with Deathwatch comes from regarding it as a play about three men locked together closely enough so that the personality of each has the maximum opportunity to work subtly upon the others; three men racked with egotistic and homosexual tensions, preying upon each other's nerves, and driving each other towards explosions of verbal and physical violence which culminate in murder...
...there are going to be more tutorial meetings in the Houses, the House tutorial staffs will have to be enlarged," said Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House. "In principle we're trying to tutor the maximum number of Honors men in the Houses," he stated, "but this raises a number of serious problems." Taylor explained that the matter requires serious study by the Masters...