Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trouble. Fascist censors and the enforced caution of correspondents in Italy, kept news of disorders at a minimum. John Lucas, New York World newsgatherer, inclined to alarums, cabled...
...tenant farmers from an economic standpoint. Young men go into the country sections and do good work for two or three years as a sort of apprenticeship to moving into the city." He recommended: "A sort of traveling parson who would serve several missionary stations." And he advocated a minimum wage scale for rural clergy...
...funny in sassing military discipline. When a little fellow (George Arthur) is the sasser, and a bulky one (Karl Dane) symbol of the sassed, there is the added Mutt & Jeff twist. All this is stuffed into the story of a rookie at a military training camp, making for a minimum of subtlety, a maximum of facial contortion, a modicum of hilarity...
...eminent educator stressed not only the duties which the individual owes to the state, and to his fellow citizens, but also the duties of the United States owed to the rest of the world, which, he felt, call for this country's joining the World Court as the "irreducible minimum of our international obligations...
...stand in regard to the World Court, declaring that he feels it is "unfortunate that there have been seemingly insuperable obstacles which have prevented our country from taking part formally and actively in the World Court. Our joining the World Court has seemed to me to represent the irreducible minimum of our international obligations...