Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alter the present composition of these reserves. The members of the Navy programs in particular will b the only sizable group of able-bodied men who can be liberally educated for the duration; yet they have been given this opportunity partly because they meet the minimum qualifications, and more especially because they happened to be in college at a time when enlistment was a prerogative of the individual and of his service. For some, V-1 was a way to dodge the draft; for others, the provisions for a prolonged education meant only an irritating delay in reaching active service...
...Germans expended the absolute minimum on the conquered Ukrainians, extracted the utmost. For Russian handicraft products the Germans exchanged useless junk imported from the Reich. German firms opened offices in the large cities, blanketed the countryside with traveling salesmen. Solely to survive, some Ukrainians cooperated with the Nazis who had come to organize "free trade." Rather than starve, Russian bootblacks served German soldiers at street-corner stands. Other Russians opened photographic studios, candy shops, cafes. But even Berlin newspapers have admitted that the spirit of subservience to the Germans is rare in the Ukraine...
...last week was Britain's hottest political issue: the Beveridge Plan to guarantee every Briton "freedom from want," "postwar social security," "provision for old age." The House stand would show whether or not conservative Britain after the war was prepared to pay through the nose to get a minimum of security for all its people...
...take part in all college athletics and other campus activities... Navy students may also join all previously established college organizations and fraternities... students under the V-12 (college training) program will be required to maintain the Navy's standards of discipline, although military activities will be kept at a minimum and subordinated to academic training," the release stated...
...civilians who wish to enter the V-12 program, but are not enlisted in V-1, V-5 or V-7, the qualifications are as follows; male citizen of the United States, morally, and physically fit, with minimum visual acuity of 18/20 unmarried and agree to remain so until commissioned, and evidence potential officer qualifications, including appearance and scholarship records...