Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yards, farms. To 22 types this number should be reduced. Last week the Department came to grips with men's pajamas and their standardization. On request of the nightwear manufacturers' division of the International Association of Garment Manufacturers, a conference was held at Washington to define a minimum standard measurement for male pajamas...
High in the sky Apollo opened his oxygen supply full. The temperature was nearing a minimum of 76° below zero. The controls were growing stiff from cold. It became impossible to see anything even through the holes in the goggles. In spite of the temperature the flier ungoggled his eyes, the better to watch his instruments. He was dizzy but he pushed the plane slowly through a last thousand feet. At 39,140 ft. he finally pushed it too far. The nose whipped over; the plane plunged 2,000 ft. in a spin. Then the new holder of the altitude...
Last week strike leaders slightly modified their demands. They were ready to accept a 48-hour week instead of a 40. They would return on the 1927 wage scale, instead of the $20 per week minimum. But Manager J. A. Baugh of the Loray Mill was "too busy" even to discuss these concessions. To him the strikers were just "discharged" employes. His mill, he claimed, was running well without them...
...inquiringly about. Quietly he added $5,000, ordered the vase to be removed. "Who's the buyer?" cried a woman. "The British public has a right to know that. The vase has been in our museum a century!" The buyer was the Duke of Portland. He had set his minimum at $250,000. He allowed newspapers to state that it would be returned to the British Museum. Britishers were happy, yet marvelled at the absence of U. S. moneybags. Some surmised that U. S. financiers are not interested in damaged goods. In 1845 the Portland vase was shattered...
...bits of enlightment as may still be found after the beginning of the Reading Period. On the one side there is a harried group who mutter something about "Divisionals" and hurry back to their books. At the other extreme are those whose academic engagements have been reduced to a minimum and who do not even look up from their road-maps and time-tables at the Vagabond's approach. Persona non grata as he may be, the Vagabond lingers on past the usual date of his annual disappearance, and for two reasons...