Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...acts, and differs radically from any previous economic legislation. All able bodied male residents of the state between the ages of eighteen and fifty years are required to be engaged regularly in some lawful and recognized employment, trade or profession until the end of the war. A minimum of thirty-six hours of labor a week is also set. But the law does not stop with the definition of the crime; it was enacted to be effective and severe penalties are included for non-compliance with its provisions...
...many mass meetings were held throughout the Metropolitan District in the interest of the Red Cross. Chairman Webster, in charge of the Boston drive for the Second Red Cross War Fund, issued a statement calling for $4,000,000 from the city, a 33 percent over subscription of the minimum quota. He also refuted charges of large administrative expenses in the management of the Red Cross in the following words...
When the military courses for the present year were announced last fall, there was much comment when it was discovered that Military Science 1 was to count only as a half course, whereas Military Science 2 was to be equivalent to a whole course. The minimum of five hours per week was proclaimed for both courses and this minimum has in each case been exceeded during the year. The two courses have always been considered of equal importance; the only difference has been that one is elementary and the other somewhat more advanced. Why, therefore, should not the members...
Forget the University quota; forget your city's quota; forget your state's quota; remember only the national quota. At the time of going to press the indications are that there is yet a margin between the nation's subscription to the Liberty Loan and the minimum quota demanded by the national government. That margin must be made up, whether by North or South, East or West. It will be little help to America's cause that Harvard University, or the State of Massachusetts, or the First Federal Reserve District exceed or double their allotments if the Berlin and Munich...
...College Office is arranging to reduce to a minimum the number of conflicts which may arise between the coming special final examinations and the various athletic activities scheduled for the week of May 4 to 11 inclusive...