Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late, Benito has been a milk-and-water politician, giving the minimum of offense and overlooking much abuse. In the Senate, however, he became himself, fire-eating, bellicose, pugnacious. He had come to obtain a vote of confidence and bluntly he told the Senators: "If you have confidence in me, say so; if you have not, vote against me and I will...
...Vienna, Karl Jaworek faced judge and jury to answer for attempting the assassination of ex-Chancellor Ignaz Seipel (TIME, June 9). To the court was read a penitent letter from the accused to his victim. The minimum sentence is usually five years hard labor...
...already announced the competition in all departments will last for eleven weeks. Candidates for the news department will have to write up the news, day by day. Business candidates for the news department will have to secure advertisements and do a minimum of office work. Photographic candidates will take pictures of athletic events and persons prominent in the daily news. They will not be required to furnish their own equipment...
...expect it to be radical? Should trade unions give up the very certain fruits of a semi-monopoly for the shadowy benefits of a collectivistic chimera? In America population has not begun to strip the overflowing bread-basket; elsewhere laborers in millions are deprived of all but the barest minimum, as the limit of population has been reached or even overstepped. In America competition is strong, but it is competition for the best fruits of industry; abroad workers compete for the mere right to survive. Decidedly, foreign laborers, made desperate by economic inevitabilities, are ready to strike...
...Dean Holmes. If it is to be remedied, more tutors must be added to the departments. At present, so little time can a tutor devote to any one student that he can not know him or his needs. Every system of large-scale education reduces to a bare minimum the contacts between professor and student. It was hoped that the tutor would counteract this disadvantage of a large college. But when forced to share himself among too many students the tutor becomes merely another part of the already too bloodless and inhuman system...