Word: optimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your proofreaders, I daresay, must have been taken in by the soporific tenor of the article . . . I believe the correct word to be "optimum," not optimism; or am I, too, with Morpheus...
...will start in September, however, will be cut from 525 to 500 in order to stop what Toepfer calls "the creeping growth of the Law School." The faculty of the Law School has decided that 500 is about the greatest number of students it can admit and still retain optimum efficiency...
...optimum of House spirit has always been something of a question. Lowell often seemed intent on producing something akin to the loyalty attached to the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, yet he always insisted on placing the College ahead of the single units making...
...been a secret and .septic delivery in a hayloft, presided over by her mother and grandmother. Then what would have become of the baby? The question did not arise because Dr. Flournoy and a colleague authorized a legal abortion, which was performed in a clinic of high repute, under optimum medical conditions, for about...
...idea of three condemned men who are better than most of their unimprisoned associate and who arrange fate according to an optimum standard of justice is amusing at least for a time. It provides the convicts with an opportunity to invent a variety of tricks, including mock trials and frivolous discussions of good and evil, in their efforts to save the Ducotels. Slezak, bouncing about the stage in a care-free, self-assured style, is the real mastermind of the group. A superb comedian, he makes gimmicks which might have grown stale seem fresh throughout...