Word: maximum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Marine Corps has been a part of the Navy since its founding in 1775.) While it is true that an oversimplified doctrinaire war plan could be disastrous, the advocates argue that a war plan carefully thought through, carefully approved by civilians both in Pentagon and Congress, would take maximum advantage of the strength of all the services and of the U.S. economy. As for the man on horseback, say general staff advocates, if U.S. institutions are that weak, then the nation is in worse trouble than it ever reckoned. A career Army officer inhabits the White House, with the authority...
Like a group of soldier volunteers who were kept awake for 98 hours at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Utah students slept an average of only ten to twelve hours (maximum: 16) after their ordeal, awoke feeling completely fit again. But the Salt Lake City and Army researchers agree that a man kept awake under intolerable stresses of secret-police procedures is made amenable to suggestion and is simply not the same character as when rested. Moreover, his normal personality is no help to him during prolonged sleeplessness; in fact, the Army medics found that, paradoxically...
...prosecution and defense wound up their case, Feuillet's icy calm cracked in a flood of tears. Last week he was found guilty of "gross neglect" and "unscrupulous" behavior, sentenced to the maximum penalty under French law: two years in prison and a million francs ($2,500) fine. To the Stalinon victims and their families, the court awarded $1,533,000 in damages, but they were not likely to collect: both Feuillet and the owner of the pharmaceutical firm that manufactured Stalinon deny that they have the money...
...true virtuoso fashion. Contestant Fain showed brilliant technique, warmth and sincerity, though there seemed to be something constrained about her playing. Harth, on the other hand, got himself into trouble with some of the judges by playing too freely. When the vote was counted (Oistrakh giving both contestants identical, maximum scores), Violinist Fain nosed out Violinist Harth by 409 to 406 points. Some of the Western judges were wroth, argued that Louisville's Harth would have won but for open political partiality. At week's end the six top contestants played a joint concert in Warsaw...
...science faculty crams 2.200 students into auditoriums built in 1895 for a "maximum" of 1,400. Since 10,000 students are enrolled in science, only a small minority are able to attend their courses regularly...