Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bespectacled scribe can generally be relied upon to extract the important features of the matter. Perhaps it is his glasses, or his ingratiating air, or his professed fondness for aesthetics, which gives him the faculty of getting statements on vital issues where others have failed lamentably. With a minimum of apparent effort, he covers as much ground as any of his fellow football recorders...
There are 40 Royal Academicians - . the number fixed by George III when he granted them the "Instrument" of foundation. The following year a class of Associates was formed, and is now composed of an indefinite number of members with a minimum of 30. To this class Laura Knight belongs. Associates are elected by vote of both Academicians and Asso ciates, having been proposed and seconded by one of the former. They have all rights and privileges except an active part in the Academy ad ministration...
...reach a maximum number of students. But the inspirational influence of the teacher is bound to be diluted when adapted to the needs of the group. This diffuse quality attracts, as President Pease says, "those members of the student body who seek the maximum of credit with the minimum of effort." He suggests the division of certain kinds of courses into smaller classes as the most immediate remedy. Beyond that lies the tutorial system, which as in use at Harvard is instilling what President Pease calls "the joys of accurate, independent, comprehensive and creative thinking...
...Farmer-Laborites, the American Federation of Labor and other bodies at the Conference for Progressive Political Action, which backed his fellow Wisconsinite, the late Robert M. LaFollette. With not even a LaFollette in sight, Mr. Berger will probably confine his attention to legislative reforms, such as unrestricted immigration, minimum wage and child labor laws...
Underwood Bookkeeping Machines combined the typing of records and mechanical calculating of accounts by a minimum number of processes. One operator does the work of several bookkeepers. Its basis is the Underwood typewriter...