Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swung into its longest stride, and reached its best form. Holy Cross went to New Haven basing their confidence of victory on their two previous successes, but the Yale players turned them down to a 7-3 defeat. Tunney, who had before held the Eli hits to a sad minimum, was knocked out of the box in the sixth, while his opponents continued to find his successor, Gill. This was unquestionably Yale's triumph of the season, and it is on account of this victory, more than for anything else that life University cannot feel confident today...
...Labour in the United States cites instances of collective dealings in this country in the 18th century. Even in Europe, where the tendency has developed more fully than in the United States the recognition by law of "joint control" goes back several years. In England, for example, the Miners' Minimum Wage Act of 1921 gave statutory powers in the matter of fixing wages to joint boards of miners and mine owners. In Germany the first step toward the legal recognition of the workers' right to participate in management dates from 1891 when an act was passed amending the Industrial Code...
...tendency of college legislation, of late, has been to increase the burden of the student without releasing him from the petty annoyances that so often sour him. It is time to do away with a few of them. Two courses would have twice the value of four as a minimum for the senior. If the student is to be interested in his reading he must have time to be so. He cannot be while his life is one tedious examination after another. An ounce of confidence in the undergraduate, an ounce of trust in his power to educate himself, would...
...Jack-o'-Lantern: "We're a dizzy people. The shimmy proves that, without the ghost of a need for further proof". From the New York University News: "Overlooking the physiological aspects of women's clothing there is a strong moral aspect to this laxity of dress. . . . There is a minimum of clothes and a maximum of cosmetics, head-decorations, fans and jewelry. It is, indeed, an alarming situation when our twentieth-century debutante comes out arrayed like a South Sea Island savage", says President Murphy of the University of Florida: "The low-cut gowns, the rolled hose and short skirts...
...characteristic of our present-day educational reform that everything is made as easy as possible for the pupil. The effort of attention is reduced to a minimum by the employment of all sorts of devices for making the subject interesting. "Child psychology" with its array of "complexes" has driven from the field the older method of teaching by rote. We are further shifting the emphasis from the dry and musty Classics to the newer and more fascinating Sciences. But though we try to impart a great deal of information, it is against modern principles to demand the expenditure...