Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bijur automatic screw drive. On the end of the screw shaft is cut an 8-tooth pinion which meshes with a larger gear on the propellor shaft. The starter will turn over the engine at 40 to 50 r.p.m. with a consumption of 100 to 110 amperes and a maximum of 1300 foot-pounds is available on the engine crank shaft, for breaking loose a cold engine. When the engine begins firing the screw drive automatically demeshes from the crank shaft gearing. The storage battery weighs 26 pounds, and has a rating of 24 ampere-hours or sufficient to supply...
...fault for the high living cost? Wage earners are blaming the employers and capitalists, and the employers and capitalists are blaming the wage earners. Each accuses the other of profiteering. How can the profiteer be hunted out? He has thrived in spite of the excess profit tax. A maximum profit law would involve no end of red tape. Bringing to account those profiteers which are on the surface would be like applying a temporary remedy to vermin instead of getting at the cause of vermin. What encourages profiteering?--disorder, uncertainty, distrust...
...arrange the schedule of duty as to conflict as little as possible with the business, professional or student work of the members of the command. Students are assured that there will be as little interference as possible with their college duties. With the command recruited to its maximum strength, military duties will be correspondingly light for all. JAMES G. WHITE, Colonel Commanding
Despite the fact that the administration recently altered its regulations in regard to rooming in fraternity houses, increasing the maximum from fourteen to sixteen, accommodations are at a premium, and scores of men now in Hanover, particularly members of the upper classes, are still occupying only temporary quarters. Every dormitory is filled, and a vacant room in a private house is unusual...
...front of the Library is one of a type and calibre that proved themselves very efficient in the recent war. Throwing a projectile weighing around ninety-five pounds at a maximum muzzle velocity of twenty-three hundred and eighty feet per second it attains a maximum range of about seventeen thousand yards. It was the mainstay of the American and French armies in medium field rifles, and improvements in gun and projectile were being rapidly made when the armistices was signed...