Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...official trials each man is required to complete his total test within thirty minutes, a premium thus being put on speed. To make the trial a criterion of general physical efficiency it is provided that no man shall score more than a certain maximum or less than a certain minimum on any one exercise...
...Corporation has decided not to carry into effect the four-dollar insurance plan of conducting the Stillman Infirmary this year, the minimum number of two thousand registrations not having been made. The existing arrangement whereby patients pay two dollars a day for a bed in the ward, board, and ordinary nursing, will be continued through the year...
...sick members of the University, and to gain from the year's experience a practical idea of its working needs, on which, after all, the financial plan must ultimately be based. It is important, therefore, that the registration under the four-dollar plan should be up to the minimum number of two thousand necessary to place the facilities of the Infirmary this year at the command of every member of the University...
...result the Crimson eleven beat Pennsylvania for the first time since 1893, and Yale for the first time since '91. The coaching had been more systematic. The plan of having sub-head coaches was perfected and more strictly adhered to. The plays were cut down to a minimum and for the first time in the history of Harvard football a special defence was worked out to meet Pennsylvania's guards-back. The distinctive feature of the 1898 eleven was its kicking game, which was to my mind the most highly perfected that any team has ever had. This, the simplicity...
...essentially as follows. A series of stars of constant brightness is selected, as near as possible to the variable to be observed, in such a way that the brightest is somewhat brighter than the variable at its maximum intensity, and the faintest somewhat fainter than the variable at minimum. Between these extremes the stars differ one from another in brilliance by about half a magnitude, and they are designated by letters in the order of brilliance. This sequence of stars of known magnitude enables the brightness of the variable star to be closely determined at any time, by comparison with...