Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 eighty per cent of the lectures I was supposed to attend. I not only did not fail to get through; I graduated cum laude! Harvard '21, Providence...
...National Woman's Party. This group advocates an amendment to the Constitution to the effect that "men and women shall have equal rights throughout the U. S. and every place subject to its jurisdiction"-which among other things would invalidate the legal restrictions on hours of work, the minimum wage, etc., for women unless the restrictions were made to apply to both men and women. The Party contends that the type of special legislation raising the standards for employment of women really tends to injure women in industry-put them out of jobs, hinder their promotion, etc. The greater...
...Anglo-French agreement was contingent in any case upon the still unconcluded Franco-U. S. debt settlement. If France should agree to pay the U. S. proportionably more, Britain was to have pari pasau treatment. However the French fiscal breakdown has damped British hopes of ever receiving even the minimum agreed upon by Caillaux...
...concluding its analysis, the Committee, with unconscious humor, proceeded to plot the undergraduates' week for him. Forty-two hours, it declared, is the minimum which should be devoted to studying, four should be given to serious reading not included in courses, seven to exercise, three to concerts and the theater, two to social affairs, and, finally, two to religion. For sleep the Committee thought 56 hours sufficient: It concluded by pointing out that 52 thus remained for eating and other activities...
...Harvard, Freshmen have been told that 40 hours a week is the minimum time allotment for studying, nine hours for each course and four for tutorial work. Thus far the remaining 128 have been left to their discretion...