Word: optimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other recent developments aimed at improving food quality and reducing estimated costs. A test dietician, added to the University staff on January 1, now "studies nutrition on a scientific basis." This researcher takes slabs of meat, cooks them in different methods at varying temperatures, and tries to attain optimum palatability with a minimum of food shrinkage. The less the shrinkage, the less food needed for preparation. In addition, all purchasing for the kitchens is now handled through competitive bidding, which has brought a reduction in delivered prices. Both these moves aim at cutting down or minimizing the cost spiral...
...roles of God and Satan are currently taken by Raymond Massey and Christopher Plummer, respectively. Each of them has one of the most glorious voices of his generation, and each uses it with optimum effect. They are both on stage from beginning to end, though they remain silent for long periods of time. But they know how to project their presence even then, for they are both masters of what Ethel Barrymore has called "perhaps the highest art of an actor--the art of beautiful listening...
General Gavin has reached the maximum-pay retirement age and is now sounding off against the present armed forces setup for his own gain. If he loved his country more than self, he would serve his years of optimum value in the face of opposition...
...title notwithstanding, this is not a book about the mental health of the college community. Dr. Farnsworth has nothing to say about the effect of academic values on emotional stability, the merits of intellectualizing all experience, the relationship between intellectual and emotional maturity, the optimum conditions for efficient learning, or the motives of those who turn to the intellectual life...
...whether his observation is not self-evident We may even deplore his failure to render the one service to his ideal which might be expected from a college psychiatrist with two decades of diverse experience: a chapter of "what is definitely known about the relationship between personality development and optimum intellectual functioning." Unfortunately, this book bolsters the assumption that nothing is definitely known except that in some indefinite way the two are connected...