Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...materials used in manufactures. Six major crops-corn, wheat, oats, hay, cotton, potatoes (70.8% of all farm products)-show the 8-year cycle. So do coal and iron (13.4% of raw materials are mined), lagging slightly behind the generating cycle of crop production. Maximum and minimum rainfall definitely occurs in a periodicity of eight years, both in Europe and America. All these concurrent cycles have been observed and verified over periods ranging from 40 to 160 years by a host of unimpeachable witnesses. There is no longer any possible doubt of their intimate causative connection...
...should on no ground leave to the monarch the invidious and dangerous task of being the guardian. . . . Looking ahead, however, one of two things may have to be done. The present maximum life of the House of Commons is five years. Shall we be driven to fix a minimum? If we were it ought not to be more than three years. As an alternative, could the House of Commons be made to decide its own dissolution within the maximum period fixed? There are objections to both methods...
...skill, he has presented his story. For the most part one is not conscious of the facts and theories, but is swept along by the enthusiastic Mr. Sayler--praising here, condemning there, now slyly poking fun, now seriously propounding theories and giving predictions. He has written, too, with the minimum of prejudice, which for a person so vitally interested in the theatre; is remarkable. He has done more than write a mere chronicle of the theatre. He has done something far more valuable--he has exploded for all times the prejudice, handed down to us from the last century along...
...create a Government corporation capitalized at $300,000,000 to stabilize Northern Spring wheat at a minimum price of $1.50 a bushel...
Miss Ursula Williams, Labor, youngest woman candidate, is a "beautiful girl of 26," not old enough to vote (30 is the minimum age for women). Said she: "My interest in politics is general, as well as feminine Luckily I know something about my constituency, having canvassed it, on and off, for father, since...