Word: optimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working under a grant from Canada s National Research Council, she placed chilled, water-soaked wheat seed in chambers that provide optimum light temperature and humidity for growth' Into all but the experimental control chambers she piped continuous tones of either 5,000 or 12,000 cycles per second. Every week or two during their first eight weeks of growth, randomly selected seedlings were measured and weighed, and their roots, leaves and shoots counted. To decrease the chance error, the entire experiment was repeated ten times over a period of nearly two years...
...German Department) continue language study here voluntarily, so the modifications of the requirement won't depopulate Harvard language courses. Next year the CEP may be able to forego its annual and always lengthy theoretical debate on language study. For the student the change may not be the optimum solution, but it is the only politically feasible one and will eliminate the worst hardships of the present scheme...
...United States panel is tackling the questions of optimum population in an advanced industrial society, and the roles of government, the private citizen, and the planner in creating an ideal urban government...
...There has not been any ruling on the optimum sizes of either college since I arrived," Mrs. Bunting continued. She was a member of a 1963 committee set up to report on this issue, but, she chuckled, "the committee decided not to make any recommendations...
...because of expensive weight-cutting programs and more complex missile systems. Despite the extra costs, the Air Force's F-111A currently is capable of making only a 100-mile low-level supersonic dash, and the Navy's model is still 7,000 Ibs. too heavy for optimum carrier use. The Air Force feels that it can live with the F-lllA's shorter dash range and is happy enough with it to have ordered production of 395 planes. But the Navy is not sure that it will be able to use its ver sion with maximum...