Word: optimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both dip their right shoulders before the catch, an da stroke who rows the lowest beat in the east. Yet the Bolles-coached crew won, has gone right on winning since that race, and probably will continue to do so until the season ends. The answer is the optimum combination of power with form...
...crew reporter, on the other hand, finds himself in a spacious launch which runs up the river parallel to the race. Thus he may not only see all the race, but see it from an optimum angle. There are many items of interest which the aforementioned spectator never discovers for the simple reason that they all crop up out of sight. Chief among these is that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis...
...administration has been trying to get its program through Congress since February. Most of it hasn't even reached the floor yet. There is no doubt that our national legislature moves slowly even under optimum conditions, but a glance at the Congressional Record will prove that tremendous amounts of time have been consumed by committees and individual members talking about the "Red menace." In state legislatures, the diversion of energies is worse. Here the hysteria has resulted in definite action: the New York legislature now has a bill which would prevent anyone who backs "theories contrary to the Constitution" from...
...that tops ten. Under ideal conditions, Emerson D varies from six to eight, Mallinckrodt MB-9 just reaches nine, and the handsome new indierctly-lit lecture room in the Institute of Geographical Exploration registers little higher. The New Lecture Hall comes through with six-foot candles, accepted as the optimum light-level for gymnasium lockers and public washrooms...
...Architecture: "There won't be room in most small living rooms for both fireplaces and television sets." Because TV sets are best viewed headon, "this mechanical fact may elongate the room, to avoid waste space on either side of the optimum viewing arc. Windows must be disposed to preclude the advent of any glare . . . Furniture groupings will be theater-style . . ." As screens grow larger, light in the room will be reduced. This, naturally, will require the use of luminous knives, forks and china...