Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plan is like that of a horse-car company with its horses, which gives the brutes the minimum of oats and the maximum of work, and has, by long experience, learned to keep the unhappy animals nicely balanced on a knife edge, between death from starvation and prostration from overwork...
...used clubs weighing nearly sixteen pounds, another's were only about five pounds. Some rules to regulate these things seem to be needed. Let there be two classes according to the weight of the men, say, over and under a hundred and fifty pounds. Then prescribe a minimum weight of clubs for each class and a fixed time for each man to swing. This would make this event decidedly more interesting and less tedious. The other criticism is on the announcing of the heights as the bar is moved, as was done in the running jump. It is not fair...