Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matthiessen, who will be absent next year but will return in the fall of 1950, there is a group of tuors who are specialists in each of the fields, and every concentrator gets regular tutorial guidance from the time he enters, unless his grades fall below the minimum Group IV rating...
Chuck knew now that the B-29 was in a flat power glide to increase its speed to 240 m.p.h., minimum flying speed of the loaded X-1. "B29 eight zero zero," chanted Major Cardenas, "30 seconds to drop time...
...Petersburg, Fla., slight, dapper James Earl Webb, 49, operates what he calls "the world's most unusual drugstore." Unlike most independent druggists, he never felt that he needed the protection of "fair-trade" (i.e., minimum-price) laws to protect him from the competition of big chain stores. Instead, he went out after customers with such unorthodox loss-leader promotions as selling two thousand $1 bills for 95? apiece. By selling everything from meat and liquor to haircuts and ladies' ready-to-wear, he boosted the annual gross of his hustle-bustling "Webb's City" from a first...
While doing so, "Doc" Webb ran smack up against the 1939 fair-trade laws which Florida, and 44 other states, had passed at the insistence of organized druggists as protection against price-cutting. When Webb put on a sale of Hiram Walker whisky below the fair-trade minimum...
There is no really fine verse in this adaptation and it offers on scholastic threat to the Euripides-Gilbert Murray success team. But Jeffers has reduced to a minimum the hard demands put upon an audience by a Greek tragedy; the number of mythological allusions and images is small and the diction is tuned for modern ears. It's a pity that the writer, who has a good sense of dramatic values, has no lyrical gift. Mr. Jeffers has had theater greatness thrust upon him by Miss Anderson...