Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the Hutchins plan, this manpower reservoir would pursue a liberal arts course for two years and then branch out into more specialized training. Those who had not maintained a minimum standard would then be subject to immediate draft, he said...
...Minimum Weekly Goal...
Weekly average minimum hoped for by the War Service Committee is $1000, a goal which has long since been reached and passed by Yale. Average so far for the College has been $300, and last week the sales fell well below this with only $288.50 dollars' worth sold. Purchases in bonds, made available for the first time last week, reached a total of $275, but indicated the effort of only a very few people...
...Port Darwin on Australia's northern coast. In his first big night raid he sent over 27 bombers escorted by 22 Zeroes. Allied fighters met them, knocked down nine planes, lost only one. Again, Australia's defenders sent up no shouts of victory. Pared down to a minimum of equipment, they feared the implications of the big raid. It must mean that Japanese air strength in the South Pacific was on the rise. And on the future they looked with a strange, foreboding pleasure: there was going to be a fight on MacArthur's front, after...
Over the first five-week block of exercises this summer, the classes have worked up from a minimum dosage toward a maximum, aiming to produce enough ability to pass these tests and tone up the entire muscular systems of the students. After the present layoff for examinations, the remaining part of the summer conditioning will pick up where the first block ended and continue to grow more grueling...