Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organize a mass of material or to sort the essential from the less important, are offered to those who wish to avail themselves of them. We are not competing with the tutoring schools or attempting to find a way to pass a course with a minimum of work. Indeed, experience has shown that often all a man needs is a little encouragement and a few simple suggestions at a moment when the amount of ground covered seems impossibly great...
...liberal policy towards foreign students would lead to some abuses. A few aliens might gain access to the country under the guise of students and establish a permanent residence here. But by a careful police surveillance and system of registration these cases could be kept to a negligible minimum. More liberal laws and a different policy on the part of our official representative's abroad would be more in accordance with the cordial welcome extended to American students by foreign governments...
...years at college does not seem to affect their business acumen, nor that of many who never attempt to go to college. Perhaps Dr. Ogilby's complaint comes from too high an esteem for a college degree, which may mean very little when secured, as is often, by a minimum of application to carefully chosen, easy courses...
...motionless television and telephotography. Dr. Alexanderson's feat was to utilize a beam of light (which in motionless telephotography has from 2 to 20 minutes to trace and transmit the desired light-pattern or image) at unprecedented speed, so that it could render a complete image within the minimum time that the human eye will catch an image, a 16th of a second. This he had done by splitting his light beam into seven parts, letting each part trace a fraction of the whole image-pattern recorded by the photo-electric cell. The next problem was to transmit...
...late Attorney General in contempt of court when newspapers a few months old show that the charge was one of conspiracy to defraud the United States? Who is M. A. Dangherty? What did he have to do with King? Of course, such examples portray the absence of that minimum of labor and keenness that should typity a reporter. But more, they could not have been made by one with some conception of judicial procedure and current events. To such a person, with only the elements of a technical training, the account would have smacked more of adventures in a Lewis...