Word: optimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote Dwight Eisenhower on the eve of his world tour, "has been to advance the rule of law in the world through actions directly by the U.S. Government and in concert with the governments of other countries. It is open to us to further this great purpose both through optimum use of existing international institutions and through the adoption of changes and improvements in those institutions...
...practitioner of the craft arises, renews the book he checked out the evening before, hides it somewhere in the stacks or on a desk during the day, and returns briefly in the evening to do the reading. As a result, book turn-over in Lamont is reduced far below optimum levels. By 10 in the morning, all copies of a certain reserve book may be circulating in the library, although none of them...
...graduated Seniors may have found it strange and unfamiliar to hear a discussion of this sort at Harvard. The last time they had been addressed together, as newly arrived Freshmen, talk had centered around the practical problems of college life, such as the nature of the curriculum and the optimum participation in extra-curricular activities. Four years before they had heard very little talk of ethics or character, and since that time perhaps even less...
...Last winter, just after new Space Administrator T. Keith Glennan ordered the space shoot, the Air Force, Navy and Marines selected the nation's no likeliest military test pilots (requirement: at least 1,500 flight hours). Clattering IBM punch-card selectors pared the list to 69 men of optimum size, health, intelligence. Offered a chance to volunteer...
...great curve-ball controversy. How much does the ball curve-if at all? This week Dr. Briggs made his answers. The ball curves all right, and the biggest jug handle a pitcher can expect to throw is 17.5 in. Ideal curving speed: about 100 ft. per sec. Optimum amount of spin: some 1,800 r.p.m. But, Dr. Briggs adds, ''the speed of the pitched ball has little effect on the amount it curves. The important thing is the spin...