Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...petulantly disregarding this that the clubs make their mistake. It is in obtaining as preceptors or Inspiratiors men who are grounded in nothing but their own and other's opinions. We feel this word "liberal"to be no guarantee against a muchness of talking with a minimum of thinking. It is from this danger that the summer converations must steer clear. If they consistently do they may be of some benefit: if not and more sounding boards for so much more noise and fury
...form will be the minimum dramatic contract adopted by the Authors League of America and the Producing Managers Association. Under it royalties will be five percent on the first $5000 gross weekly receipts, seven and one half percent on the next $2500, and ten percent on anything above...
...city transit had been followed from the beginning, many of the most objectionable features of city life would not exist today. Population congestion, housing congestion, business congestion, manufacturing congestion, amusement congestion, and the great bogey of our transit problem--the rush hour congestion, all would be reduced to a minimum or eliminated. Everybody would be more comfortable, healthier and happier. Our people would not be living so much in layers. Instead most people would be in their own homes spread out through the open country, thus making living conditions more ideal
...that barrier. The Wellend Canal, now nearing completion, will remove the barrier at Niagara Falls. From Lake Ontario to Montreal is a distance of 182 miles. Between Lake Ontario and Gallop Island, a distance of 68 miles, there is now a channel more than 30 feet deep with a minimum width of 500 feet. Therefore, there is only a distance of 114 miles involved in the improvement. But in this 114 miles, there is now at different points about 68 miles of navigable water, leaving about 46 miles constituting the barrier now existing. The barrier consists of rapids at various...
...problem is to develop industry under the factory system, while avoiding the evils of industrialism. Slowly but surely the mill and factory are taking the place of the village and household industries in China. But there are no labor laws, there are no restrictions of hours, there are no minimum wage guarantees, there is unblushing exploitation of the labor of children. The pace is set by foreign firms, closely followed by the Chinese employers themselves. One does not need to assert that there is only one side to this question in order to argue the point that herein lies...