Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanford or Virginia, are rah-rah and nothing else. Princeton isn't; Nassau men take their studies seriously and work hard on them, probably harder than Harvard students. Freshmen and sophomores carry five courses a term, and every senior (except engineers) must write a thesis-often 60,000 words minimum...
...terms as Congressman in Washington. His past term as mayor was unique in that he passed five months of it in the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Conn. Curley has built up a large personal following, though hardly a machine, that will remain solidly behind him next Tuesday. The minimum estimate of his vote is around 80,000 while, if he wins, he will probably poll over...
...cost him his job. The man was Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, titular head of the President's economic advisers. He began his speech by skeptically questioning a glittering prediction by his economist colleague, Leon Keyserling, of a $350 billion national income by 1958, with a $4,000 minimum a year for almost every family. Mr. Truman later used this as the basis for a new political...
...strategy worked. By session's end, the 81st had raised the minimum wage from 40? to 75? an hour, expanded crop insurance, authorized increased spending for public power systems, restored the Commodity Credit Corp.'s authority to build grain storage bins and (with G.O.P. support, notably from Ohio's Taft) passed a slum-clearance and public-housing bill. In the closing minutes, the 81st enacted a portmanteau farm compromise put over by former Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson, and designed to redeem Harry Truman's vague and grandiose promises to the farmers...
...Using a minimum of tools, he succeeded. As Jean Cassou, curator of Paris' Musée d'Art Moderne put it, Léger became "the greatest primitive of our modern industrial age." A retrospective show which Cassou's museum was staging last week proved the point. With the few elements Leger allowed himself-poster colors and shapes that looked as if they had been stamped out of sheet metal " -he made just what he had in mind: paintings such as Disks in the City that were loud, bold, intricate and fierce as fire engines...