Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greece was taken in full knowledge of the odds-made with forces which the British hoped would be strong enough to hold the Germans, but knew were not sufficient to defeat the Army against them. The extreme hope in the Balkans was that Italy might be knocked out. The minimum hope was that a heavy cost might be inflicted on the Germans. By last week it was certain that the minimum rather than the maximum hope would be realized. The Germans had already counterattacked across Libya and developed a threat to the Suez Canal (see p. 23). They accomplished this...
...spoke last week. Last month Sloan (whose company is the world's greatest consumer-goods producer) urged heavy excise taxes on all consumer goods whose full production conflicted with defense. Already the industry had made up its mind that 1942 models would have only superficial changes requiring a minimum of retooling (plus the substitution of plastics and other materials for metals whose supply is particularly tight...
...Brothers Warner have made other concessions: Miss Davis' perpetual, migrainy suffering has been cut to a minimum. This was a bold move, for Hollywood's bug-eyed Bernhardt has won two Oscars and numerous legs on the cup for the U.S. cinema's ablest actress by her portrayals of suffering women. In The Great Lie she is cast as a lively, homespun, slacks-wearing American girl free from her favorite neuroses. Although the picture has her living on a Maryland plantation, it is far enough north to let her waive the absurdities of a Southern accent...
...proposed reduction of the minimum draft age from 21 to 18 is passed by Congress, 96.6 percent of all present undergraduates will be subject to selective service, according to a study of age and enrollment figures for the entire College...
...avoid misinterpreting of the parietal laws referring to Women guests, the Yardlings were reminded that any female, even one's mother, must be approved before she can enter the rooms between the permited hours of 1 to 7 o'clock. More careful supervision of the size of parties, both minimum and maximum, will also be undertaken from...