Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...together continuously for meals, was practically given up altogether by the students. Both undergraduates and members of the graduate and professional schools preferred to go sometimes to one place and sometimes to another, and especially to cafeterias where the social side of dining is reduced to a minimum. The attendance at Memorial Hall therefore diminished until it became probable that it could not be maintained without a heavy deficit. In the spring of 1924, circulars were sent to a large number of students asking for suggest ons about conducting the hall, and those received which appeared to represent views commonly...
...were in college under the old system will also notice with a smile that not only is duplication of effort done away with but also that a single contribution with a five dollar minimum has replaced the many solicitations for the same minimum amount. This single fact is in itself sufficient comment on the inefficient methods of the former system...
...order that the quota of $10,000 may be realized, the Budget pledge card requests that a minimum contribution of five dollars, be made by these students who can afford it. This will permit the less wealthy students to make contributions of one or two dollars or make none at all without the danger of the Budget's not being completed. If the contributions per capital for today average the same as they have for the first three days of registration the quota will be reached almost to the exact figure...
...district attorney, R. K. Hanger, announced that Dr. Norris, like any other Texas indictee; will receive acquittal, a minimum of two years for manslaughter, or the maximum of death in the electric chair, depending on how the twelve good Texas jurymen decide...
...entitled to receive an income of $4,000,000 a year and to retain the incalculably valuable Imperial estates. The delegates reminded Super-Tuchun Wu that Henry P'u-yi, who now resides quietly in the Japanese quarter of Tientsin, has not even received the absolute minimum of $500,000 per annum promised him (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924) when he was forced to sign his "supplemental abdication" by Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-Hsiang, former War Lord of Peking. Would not Super-Tuchun Wu, cried the delegates, add luster to his reputation as the exponent of China's former...