Word: optimum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Optimum. There was reason to think that Italy, far from imagining that France can be bluffed into handing over Tunisia without a fight, much less into handing over Corsica, or Nice or Savoy, is trying mainly to get or keep other things. Il Duce in the past few weeks has already got France and Britain to recognize his conquest of Ethiopia. That is in the bag, and it was a big part of the original Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935, et seq.). There are also the beautiful Spanish Isles, Majorca and Iviza, now effectively occupied by Mussolini...
...Under optimum conditions it requires from one to four days for the Japanese to clear away the wreckage," said the smiling onetime physics professor...
...began to wonder how he had got along without one. When Schicks later went on a mechanical assembly line, the price was cut to $15. Not long thereafter hundreds of thousands of men either had bought the shiny new gadgets or had begun saving their pennies toward that optimum goal. By that time, Schick had several competitors...
...182The longer the prospective married couple have known each other, the more likely is their marriage to be successful. Optimum periods: five or more years' acquaintance, three to five years' courtship, at least two years' engagement...
This whole problem has been carefully investigated and optimum conditions of plant operation determined, thereby making for greater economy...