Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Food. The minimum amount of food per day for one person includes "one ounce each of high-fat-content biscuits [crackers], condensed milk, chocolate and butterfat." Standard lifeboat provisions include Energy Tablets, each containing 5 milligrams of either metherdrine or amphetamine (stimulating drugs), which should be used only in emergencies. The pamphlet adds: "It may be dangerous to drop off to sleep . . . because the risk of drowning is thereby increased...
...trying to spell the sounds of our speech costs us the price of a fleet of battleships every year in writing and printing superfluous letters. The most civilized nation in the world, the Chinese, have taken our language in hand for business purposes and produced an English with a minimum of grammar...
...that the colleges are not the place for this kind of education. Certainly they are not the only place for it. There is, however, an opportunity in college to escape at least the most violent pressures of special interest, and to gain at least a minimum of perspective. It is this opportunity that we must maintain throughout the war and into the peace...
...world council, "so that whatever world system evolves will have enough flexibility to meet changing circumstances as they arise." >To achieve international liberty, regional problems should be left in regional hands. "The aim would be the maximum of home rule that can be maintained along with the minimum of centralized authority that must come into existence to give the necessary protection." > "The United Nations must back up military disarmament with psychological disarmament-supervision, or at least inspection, of the school systems of Germany and Japan...." >"The first concern of each nation must be the well-being of its own people...
Negro municipal employes earning $4 weekly in Pretoria recently were promised a raise to $5 under a new Government minimum-wage ruling. When the City Council objected to the raise, 2,000 natives, mostly unschooled tribesmen, held a protest meeting. Speeches got hotter and so did the natives. The natives swarmed over Pretoria's broad streets, lined with jacaranda trees, into the low, white-stoned compound buildings, smashed up furnishings and anything smashable, attacked outnumbered police who tried to stop them...