Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competition will close during the second week of the fall term next year. A minimum amount of work will be required during the final examination period...
...Received notice from Premier Baldwin that his Cabinet will fulfill one of its major pre-election pledges by introducing, after the Easter recess, a bill enfranchising all women above 21, whereas 30 is the present minimum voting age for women...
...health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in-threaded with steel beams. Last week he showed to newsgatherers a model which he had designed for next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased by movable screens, workers in actinic glass houses would get a maximum of insurance against rickets, pneumonia, tuberculosis. . . . Other exhibits prepared for the Exposition, to which engineers and architects are coming from the world's ends: diving suits, machine guns, ship models...
This so great excitement in high places over a few trivial words mounted, last week, because the Government is reported on the verge of introducing a bill to extend the franchise to women below the present minimum voting age of 30 - perhaps even down to "flappers...
During the season proper each team plays 154 games, 22 each with the others of its league. These games are studiously arranged in series of three, four or five to avoid conflicting exhibitions between leagues, to hold traveling expenses (borne by the owners) to a minimum. Games are played under a rigid, comprehensive set of rules and regulations, enforced by three (often four) militant umpires, responsible: 1) to their league presidents, 2) to onetime Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, $65,000-a-year high commissioner of the entire operation...