Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with records of good behavior can be appointed dealers. They "buy" a table for 75 cents a week, split the take with the prison, which uses its share for the recreation fund and for the purchase of eyeglasses for needy inmates. Players draw "brass" (scrip) from their personal accounts (maximum $20 a week), never handle real cash, since an accumulation of "street money" might give a prisoner big ideas about escaping. Gambling hours in the small, dim, rock-walled "casino" are carefully regulated...
...crowding-rent situation does not affect freshman rents, which are uniform throughout the Yard, but freshmen should be able to speak out on the problem during the Spring, commented F. Skiddy von Stade, Dean of Freshmen. Their choice should be made in a more thorough fashion than the maximum and minimum rent preference of the House applications, he added...
Ward areas have also been designed for maximum efficiency. The 26 rooms, which normally contain one or two beds, can, during epidemics, hold two or three beds. On the fourth floor, which will serve as the Harvard infirmary, the normal capacity of 74 beds can be easily expanded to 120. By contrast, Stillman Infirmary cannot hold more than 80 patients without serious crowding problems...
...Garst, who enjoys the glare of publicity, had invited the full herd of newsmen down to the farm. Apparently confident that he was dealing with orderly men, Farmer Garst issued eight pages of agricultural information to the press (sample: "When corn is down to 30% moisture, it has reached maximum dry weight") that was totally silent on the subject of reportorial conduct. The moment they set foot on Garst property, the newsmen turned it into a battleground...
Preparation for the Newton Plan lectures was exhaustive. The lecturers undertook a maximum of research and planning and prepared their various audio-visual aids themselves, finding that commercial slides and other aids were in most cases not exactly suited to their needs. Each lecture was then given a dry run before colleagues and revised on the basis of their suggestions...