Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because of what was described by his physician as a slight cold, the President one day canceled all but two of his engagements, spent a minimum of time in his office and retired to the privacy of his bedroom...
Said President Vauclain: "Throughout the year difficulty was experienced in obtaining, at any price, sufficient business to operate our workshops and maintain an irreducible minimum organization. Trade relations with foreign countries were sustained and improved. Workshops and machinery have been fully maintained and the transfer of equipment and operations from our works in Philadelphia to Eddystone continued. Your management considers the outlook favorable for a satisfactory business throughout the year...
...looked around a bit and father doesn't mind a little peace; of which the second or secondary class is that which includes thinking beings or those whose charm is as negligible as presidential repartee and whose pallor of feature is rouged alone by the faint fervor of a minimum intelligence. Oh! How dreadful...
...Kemal was asked what he thought about America. "You ideals," he went on, are the most striking thing about you. They are like your buildings, whose minimum height seems to be ten stories. You are a young country. Europe is a continent of tired people. Its civilization is old, but it is also in a state of total fatigue. We look to America, and so does Europe, for the maintenance and addition to new ideals...
Answer No. 62.(February, 1926). "I would advise 'Manufacturer' to send his idiot son to Harvard. I am a recent Harvard graduate myself, and I wish to assure him that there is no university in the country where it is easier to get by with a minimum of work. It is an actual fact that throughout my entire four years I read no more, in the aggregate, than fifty small pages of large type, and that I skipped 80% of the lectures I was supposed to attend. I not only did not fail to get through; I graduated cum laude...