Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special discrimination, crowded China and Japan are limited to the minimum: 100. China sent 100. Japan sent...
...Haven floor any hard-driven shot from one end will travel clear to the other, and for a player accustomed to playing on that floor it is a simple thing to score a long-shot goal. Also, the effect of the ponies' speed is reduced to a minimum...
...October 24 the minimum hourly wage for interstate industry became...
...sense changes Hamlet from Weltschmerz in tights to a gallant and proficient Renaissance prince; proclaims that Shylock cannot be whitewashed but is a definitely anti-Semitic creation ; underestimates such dull-acting but extraordinary poems as Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus; insists the plays should be read aloud, staged with a minimum of scenery and business. There have been more brilliant and more monumental studies of Shakespeare. But for the general reader this is an almost ideally useful, informative companion volume to the plays, and guide to further reading...
...Mahatma, he simply wanted Indian independence. He might have been satisfied to get "dominion status." His minimum demands were a freely-elected Indian legislature and cabinet at New Delhi. The Viceroy had half a mind to grant the Mahatma an all-Indian cabinet, reserving, however, the portfolios of Defense and Foreign Affairs for the British Raj. The Mahatma sternly declined and the conference broke up. The Viceroy issued a cordial communiqué; the Mahatma, the next morning at dawn, invited newsmen to listen to a "sunrise soliloquy" delivered by himself...