Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the eventual drive for oil; the hoarding of young men-hardened to horror on the cold plains of Manchukuo and in the hot valley of the Yangtze. For the sake of the chips there had been abnegation: less rice, less fish, less charcoal, no taxi rides, a minimum of sake, stinting on geishas, wood-pulp clothes...
...depends on the members of these committees and on the slashing of red tape to a minimum. But obviously the ultimate success of Harvard's contribution to victory rests on the unanimous support of the students as well as the other members of the University. The first step is filling out the questionnaires completely and honestly, and the next is to really fit in a little time somewhere. Mimeographing A. R. P. flyers or learning about compound fractures during exams may be more wearisome and less exciting than joining an A. E. F., but it's just as surely...
...hour First Aid--This is the minimum expected of auxiliary policemen and of auxiliary firemen, but the 20-hour course is now required training for Air Raid Wardens. The 10-hour course does not give a Red Cross First Aid Certificate and counts only as 5 hours towards the 20-hour certificate. Meetings will be arranged only if there is sufficient demand. Send questions to Mrs. Wise, 12 University Hall, Kirkland 7600, Line...
Every contest was featured by tight defensive rather than offensive play on both sides, keeping scores down to the minimum. The Harvard team averaged a little more than 33 points a game, with Joe Romano and Chick Lutz taking care of almost half of the team's total of 18 points...
Long-Range Planning. "The experience now being gained in the partial subordination of finance to war production, and the present experimental methods of financing public expenditure with a minimum of interest charges, should be extended to the post-war program of House Building and the necessary development of Agriculture and whatever other industries may be necessary to a balanced economy...