Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard will admit that the Yale spirit, that intense sentiment of community loyalty, has its merits (for Yale men); but Harvard's own tradition has in modern times been individualistic. Harvard has grown from a small college to a large college with perhaps the minimum of shock; there are more individuals than there used to be, but the individual is the unit...
Although full details of the new system have not yet been worked out, applications from students who look with favor on the plan will be received at the office of the Graduate Secretary of the Union. It is understood that a minimum of 17 meals a week will be required in order to take advantage of the $2 a week discount. Under such an arrangement the cost of board would average slightly over $11 a week...
...wear out the orchestra and singers: there is no French wing to speak of, no chance for the American artist. He makes no excuses, that imperturbable impresario with his thumbs in his armpits. But he knows, and others know, that for such a polyglot community there is the minimum amount of intrigue, that, as for individual singers, the world is at fault, producing less than it did once, but that he has nearly all the best obtainable. . . . The American artist? Mr. Gatti heaves a mighty sigh. He might quote a few figures, that of his 93 principals 37 are Americans...
...sheet of nickel 1/2000 of an inch thin and three inches in diameter, supported against the 100-pound suction of the vacuum tube by skeleton struts of molybdenum. The molecular structure of nickel is such that molecules of air (oxygen, nitrogen) cannot pass through it, though it offers a minimum of resistance to those billionth parts of molecules, electrons...
...ladies has year after year reported to the Board of Overseers that it was good. Certain facts must always be taken into account--that there is a relation between the price paid and the dishes served; that no dining hall can be operated economically with less than its minimum number of constant patrons; and that after a time--usually about March or April--the food in any dining hall, however good, tends to seem monotonous...