Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...showed to admiring fellow-scientists the notes of observations he had made on his blood-reactions during the week he had spent in that glass case. His blueness was caused by the fact that the case was almost entirely airless. A small motor pumped through a cranny only "the minimum amount of air necessary to sustain life." Stretching his length on an operating table, he had his arteries opened, his blood tested. He was glad to be blue, because this color change and the blood tests proved that he was right in his theory that there is not enough oxygen...
...President said: "We have about reached the time when the legitimate business of Government cannot be carried on at a less expenditure than that which it now requires. With regard to our legitimate business the operating costs have been reduced to nearly a minimum. The normal expansion of the business of the Government in keeping pace with a growing nation will involve added expenditure from year to year...
...wishes to do away with football, but suggestions have been and are being made that gantes be cut down to two or three a year, that coaches be paid on the same scale as professors, that inter-sectional games, commercialism, and above all professionalism be reduced to an absolute minimum and that newspaper publicity be limited in its extent...
Twenty aviation enthusiasts, many of whom are already qualified pilots have decided to form a club with a view to purchasing and operating an airplane at minimum cost. The club will be limited to 50 members. It has been estimated that with economical operation made possible with thoroughly modern equipment, the customary charge of five dollars for the ordinary joyride will be reduced to about 50 cents for members, and every member will receive from four to six hours in the air during the college year...
...season was heralded as many times its superior. The comeback against odds that the Crimson has made is the most startling and creditable of the season. That, according to press writers, Coach Fisher was striving to build up a defense to hold the Yale scoring to a minimum while Coach Jones was debating whether to roll up an obliterating tally or content himself with a moderate victory for the sake of many substitutions, must make Cambridge hearts glow with ghoulish glee. Yale may content itself with out-playing the Crimson, but Harvard will have the long awaited satisfaction...