Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liberalism of the Supreme Court, much impugned when it nullified the District of Columbia minimum wage law for women, was apparently revived by two of its latest acts. One was to decline to consider the constitutionality of the Sheppard-Towner Bill for maternity welfare instruction. This disposes of the bill only temporarily, however, and it may again come before the Court. The other was to declare unconstitutional the forbidding of instruction in foreign languages in elementary schools, public, private or parochial...
...present attacks on the Court are occasioned by its declaration against a minimum wage law. And, incidentally, radicals and Mr. Hearst object to Mr. Taft's $10,000 annuity from steel bonds...
These pictures were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in London and caused a great deal of adverse criticism and a minimum of praise. Even the ultra-radical journal, The Daily Herald, while stressing the significance of the Prince of Wales as Edward Windsor, does not hesitate to imply that it opposes attacking the Royal Family. While such obscenities are not unknown, they are particularly rare. Britishers have had good cause to admire and look up to the present Royal House, not only as a great democratic and patriotic family, but as the living symbol that binds the world-flung empire...
Juniors in cap and gown always attract the attention of their classmates and of students from colleges where four years of study is the minimum required for a degree. Three year graduates, scorning the ways of the ordinary mortal and completing in three years what takes others four, make up an unusually large proportion of the graduating body at Harvard...
...students who have difficulty in "finding themselves" when they first come to college, but who under the old requirement were able barely to "get by" as Freshmen and to make up their shortcomings later. But as a matter of fact, one-half of the men who now receive the minimum of two C's and a D the first year, fail before the middle of the succeeding year, and might better have been dropped at once; while most of the others, under the necessity of a higher standard, could probably begin their improvement just as well in their Freshman year...