Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knows it is not true. But the Allies have come to realize that Germany, a great republic, cannot be forever fettered down to the letter of the Treaty of Versailles. Germany has disarmed to an extent sufficient to render France safe from aggression. Then why not accept the practical minimum of German armament now achieved, and forget that the Versailles Treaty calls for virtually total disarmament...
...when he heaped contempt upon the "miserable coal camps of West Virginia" (nonunionized) and said that union miners would never let their standard be determined by "the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ." To signalize the U. M. W.'s proud defense of their present $7.50 minimum for six hours work, one Gus Smith would intermittently break into song, and the U. M. W. band of Monongahela, W. Va., led by one B. V. Bork, would trumpet the chorus, while galleries echoed the words...
...Manhattan; possibly, also, because the production is heavyhanded. In one play, a paralytic suddenly discovers he has the ability to strangle daughter-in-law, which he does with gusto. In another, choice Chinese diabolisms are dramatized. On the whole, there is a great deal of cruelty with a minimum of refinement...
...Edward of Wales to the U. S. and Canada next summer. The New York A. P. man took down the dictated item on a noiseless typewriter. . . . The transatlantic service begins daily at 8:30 a. m., Eastern Standard Time, ending at 1:30 p. m. Rates: $25 per min.; minimum, three min., maximum twelve min. (though on the second day a Manhattan woman was allowed to chatter along for 28 min., costing $700). The equipment involved cost five millions. The route: New York to Rocky Point, L. I. (land wire), to Wroughton, England (radio), to London (land wire), to Rugby...
...admiration the General spared the town and wooden figures in the clock tower re-enact the Meistertrunk each noon to gaping posterity in the square below. Jeremiah, MacSweeney, and a large company of well known hermits, on the other hand, increased their reputations by consuming a perilous minimum. But naturally in both courses the attendant circumstances are of importance. What seems to happen more often than not is that the amateurs end as saints, the professionals as freaks, and both as dyspeptics...