Word: optimum
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...such instructions were given. Balding, studious Captain Apt was told to follow an "optimum" flight plan. This meant that if he made no errors and if everything about the X-2 worked perfectly, he would attain the maximum speed of which the airplane was capable at the assigned altitude. No one expected him to do as well as that. The chances were as heavily against it as if he had scheduled a record-breaking auto tour from New York to Los Angeles that depended on reaching every traffic light just when it turned green...
This emphasis on sympathy without pedantry seems particularly adapted to the Harvard community, in which freedom is the optimum. But, the rapid growth of the Bishop Rhinelander Foundation must, of course, also be ascribed to the recent revival of interest in religion everywhere. Mr. Kellogg sees the basis of this interst in a sudden post-war consciousness of an enduring conflict between East and West. He feels that the two world war served only as preparatory grounds-wells, each of which subsided when people returned to the comfort of their richesse. The Russian threat, however, seems destined to continue throughout...
Sportsmen will find New England ski slopes in exceptional condition this weekend. Most resort areas will be in good-to-excellent shape with North Conway, Franconia, and Peterborough reporting optimum conditions on all slopes...
This absurd and nonsensical statement has no basis in fact whatever, and I am morally confident that Gavin Scott has never done any empirical, field investigation of it. As a former parson in the Church of England, I can testify that I have seen many beauties of an optimum standard, sired by C. of E. Clergymen. As a matter of fact, I have one of my own and as a "lovely" I'd stack her up against any Ealing Studio bombshell.... Joseph Fletcher, Robert Treat Paine Professor of Social Ethics, Episcopal Theological School...
...agree, I think, that there is nothing sacred about the present size of the College and that there is no one perfect or right number for Harvard. There is, no doubt, an optimum size, within reasonably narrow limits, for any college, the size being the number of students which, given an institution's particular resources, circumstances and function, it can educate with maximum effectiveness. I believe that, in these terms, our present enrollment is about five hundred too large, but I realize that this is subjective, unscientific judgment and I accept the fact that under pressure we are bound...