Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...source. The players' salaries are to be increased from 7 1/2% to 10%.- The agreement will be in force for one year, after which another squabble will be in good order. Mean- while, Chicago musicians are the highest paid in the world. Weekly they collect a minimum of $72.10, a maximum...
...Legal minimum wage for each industry...
...opposition" of the Earth and Mars, as their nearest approach to each other is termed in astronomical language, took place last week with a maximum excitement on the part of the public and a minimum excitement on the part of astronomers. These oppositions occur about every 26 months, but every 15 or 16 years there is an opposition when the two bodies ate nearer each other than usual, and about every hundred years or so there is an opposition at which the two planets are extremely near together-about 34,600,000 miles. This occasion belonged to the last group...
...factor of variation in the latter is a maximum of 33 seats. The present composition is 51 Republicans, 43 Democrats, 2 Farmer-Laborites. In reality the division is about 42 Democrats, 42 Republicans and 12 Radicals. To have a majority (49), either of the major parties must elect a minimum of 7 more regulars than it now has from the 33 Senators up for election...
...about 1½ miles) was instituted by the twelfth Earl of Derby in 1780 and has been run regularly ever since, at first on the last Thursday in May or the first Thursday in June, but since 1838 on Wednesdays. The stakes were first fixed in 1890 when a minimum of ?5,000 was set each year with the number of entries; all entry receipts, after deduction for second and third prizes, go to the owner of the winner...