Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well avoided in the present instance. The trappings are subdued and beautiful with out being arty. The delivery and stage manner give the sense of being anthentic without being self consciously quaint The ridiculous twists that lie in wait for the archals in our day are reduced to a minimum. There is none of the vulgar and artificial that was found in "The Miracle...
...Inasmuch as the Bard wrote without the use of a curtain, many of his scenes are bound so closely together that any appreciable wall destroys the continuity of action. For this reason I have arranged to make the intermissions between acts and scenes of a minimum duration; this can easily be accomplished with our type of semi-permanent scenery. When the wait does not exceed half a minute the theatre is kept dark in order to maintain the flow of action and proven occasion for untimely criticism and comparison. For instance, in the ghost scene of "Hamlet," when the prince...
...down to two) took the trick. If his hand was lacking in cards of the suit led he was privileged to play a trump, if he had one, and take the trick; the lowest trump outvaluing the ace of any other suit. To win, one side must take a minimum of six tricks (a book); additional tricks counted for points, games...
France-German Treaty. The commercial accord signed recently with Germany (TIME, Aug. 29) was an- other fly in U. S. Parisians' ointment. In it Germany was accorded most-favored national treatment in regard to all but specified products, which means that she enjoys the minimum tariff rates accorded to countries having this class of treaty. All countries outside this category must pay duty in conformity with the new law. U. S. businessmen, petulant, were in-clined to see deliberate discrimination in the new tariff against them in favor of the Reich...
...signs were, however, that the French government will order a stay of the new law so far as the U. S. is concerned and trade will be continued on the new minimum tariff basis, which means an average increase of 40% over the old average of 60%, until either a treaty of commerce is signed or the negotiations break down...