Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course of instruction is to be extremely thorough. A minimum of 300 hours of instruction every academic year will be given to each pupil, the courses being carefully graded, evidently to fit the needs of the child as he progresses through the elementary stages he is to learn in kindergarten into the intricacies of intermediate and advanced prohibition. At six he will be taught to avoid alcohol and tobacco. Having grown proficient at this, he is ready for a more detailed study. He is soon to be taught that cigarettes discolor the fingers and that whiskey makes noses read, which...
...goes beyond emotionalism and a hunger for headlines needs argument to prove the present existence and the future guarantee of free speech on the Wisconsin campus, I am sure of that. And no argument that I have yet seen convinces me that liberalism is inconsistent with at least a minimum sense of propriety...
...this much. I don't consider that I have been doing stunt flying. I regard my flights as carefully calculated, ordinary ventures that have a minimum of danger...
...Hughes pointed out as its greatest specific achievement the recommendation, adopted last week, that a Pan-American Arbitration Conference shall meet in Washington within a year. This will be the scene of Olympic games dedicated to the drawing up of a convention to "adopt obligatory arbitration . . . with the minimum exceptions." Exaggerating as only a great statesman can, Mr. Hughes described the promulgation of this recommendation as marking "the happiest day of my life...
...rise at any hour one pleases,' fix one's own office hours, take days off ad libitum. 6. It is honored; he and his family are respected and deference is paid to his opinions on all sorts of subjects. 7. It is fairly well paid; minimum net salary about $3,000 in most (Episcopal) dioceses. 8. It has permanence of tenure; clergymen (Episcopal) need not fear losing their appointments except for grave cause. 9. 'The clergy are exempt from being drafted for war.' Also they often get ten per cent discount on merchandise and they travel...