Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Optimists declared that as a minimum of accomplishment a pact would be signed between Britain, France, Belgium and Germany, which would achieve the following results: 1) Guarantee mutually the peace and status quo of the Rhine frontier; 2) Bring Germany at once into the League of Nations, with the rights and obligations of a member state; Force Germany to make arbitration treaties between herself and the Allied powers; as well as treaties mutually guaranteeing her western frontiers with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, and providing for arbitration in that section also...
...hundred professors a minimum salary of $30,000 a year and the entire profession will soon demand justice of the public .... They should receive from $30,000 to $50,000 annually. The tendency should be, unless the cost of living falls off sharply, to pay the higher sum generally. . . . This nation spends many hundreds of millions a year upon chewing gum and candy ... a half-billion on military and naval aviation since the war. . . billions for pleasure automobiles. Our contention here is that it is not being used to the best advantage...
Installation and servicing will consequently be accomplished at minimum costs. Complete thermostatic and electrical control is provided with the machine...
...directors of this new "Hamlet" succeeded in impressing the drama of the situations on the audience through intonation alone. Physical action was reduced to a minimum; the effect was much as if the auditors had been backstage connected with the play only as they heard the actors' voices, yet realising the action as perfectly as if they were themselves on the stage...
...active part in curriculum activities of all kinds and have won social, literary, dramatic and athletic recognition; but at the same time have maintained a general scholastic average of 79, within one point of 'honors' and well above the 'quality credit' average of 75 now being adopted as the minimum scholastic qualification for University tuition...