Word: optimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was, nonetheless, an Event of the Year, possibly the event of many years. Early in 1946, long before anyone had expected or even hoped for it, the U.S. achieved the semi-utopian goal of full (i.e., optimum) employment in peacetime. In September, the number of people at work reached a record peacetime high of nearly 58,000,000 (the unemployed numbered less than 2,000,000, of whom 700,000 were recently discharged veterans). The millions in the armed forces had been smoothly absorbed into civilian life - and jobs. And the fact that the Chicago Tribune at year...
...inch quilt of top snow which covered the sitzmark-dotted schuss fields around Cambridge Monday, moved north last night to the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire and should provide optimum conditions for any college enthusiasts intending to spend the weekend on skis...
...midst of 40 acres of heavily wooded land in Harvard township, 25 miles Northeast of Cambridge. Oak Ridge's facilities, many of which were moved from Cambridge when the northward spread of the city rendered the old location not sufficiently free from dust and artificial lights to permit optimum conditions for astronomical observation, includes a 16 inch doublet, a 24 inch refleflctor, and a 61 inch telescope with spectroscopic equipment. Oak Ridge is now the Department's headquarters for systematic photographing of the Northern...
Faced with a different task from that of Robert Jordan, the CATS have much the same difficulty. To fit these men for their jobs as administrators of occupied territories, Harvard has pioneered in finding the optimum method for accelerating language teaching...
...glimpse of the classroom work of the GI Japanese student furnishes the best idea of Harvard's "optimum method." Speaking in Japanese, a native instructor answers the questions, also in Japanese, fired at him by the students: "Where are the Japanese troops likely to have taken refuge?" the khaki-clad American asks in the strange tongue. His knowledge of the geography of the area enables him to understand, and perhaps discount, the Jap's answer...