Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the adoption into Baldwin's new cabinet of a former Liberal, Winston Churchill, and Liberal-Coalitionists, are symptoms of the disappearance of the half-way party. In fundamental agreement with the Tory policy which intends to preserve the status quo in politics and economics with just the necessary minimum of flaunting promises to catch the worker's vote, the Liberals had really lost all excuse for insisting upon a separate existence as soon as the protective tariff was defeated in the election of last January...
...formed from commercial profits, the industrial field will soon cease to be monopolized by the government. In agriculture, the communistic artels have shrunk to less than one-fourth of their original size and members. Those which still operate have abandoned the purely communistic system for an arrangement of guaranteed minimum wages and devotion of a small part of each member's product to common needs, such as farm equipment. Cooperative societies, however, both for marketing the district's product and for securing credit, are universally found throughout the provinces of Russia. The peasant whom Tolstoy believed he understood so well...
...spite of the general feeling of assurance over the outcome of Saturday's battle, a perceptible change has come over the college during the past week, reducing to a minimum the former feeling of over-confidence. The Crimson has subdued the Orange and Black but once since 1916, and that in the memorable struggle at Palmer Stadium last year. In the other four encounters, the University has been a loser twice, and earned a tie twice...
...postulated Coolidge's irreducible minimum...
...darkness." Lawyers as a body are not, at any rate as yet, very sympathetic to this explanation of human conduct as determining human responsibilities. Cooperation, they argue, is a condition of life in civilized communities. When a person fails to conform to the standards of society and gives the minimum amount of cooperation, as required by the criminal law, the community for its own protection, must impose the prescribed penalties, if such a nonconformist has the mentality to understand what Society expects of him. Definitions of legal insanity are designed to state the lack of mental capacity which one must...