Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past three years Harvard has been struggling with the effect of inflation on the costs of a Harvard education. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has been able, by keeping all expenses to the minimum to avoid a tuition charges for students have not been increased since before the war indeed not since...
Announced as the quota is $20,000, but Robbins told his hundreds of aides gathered in Adams House last night that "this is only a minimum." Of this figure, $5,000 will go to the University of Peking, China, and the University of East Punjab, India, $4,000 will go to the Salzburg Rest Center in Salzburg, and $3,000 will go both to the University of Athens and to Heidelberg...
Beryl Scott resigned from Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller. He had already divorced her in Nevada and married again (his fourth), but she divorced him in California for good measure, and got it pressed down and overflowing: custody of the three children, their $50,000 home, car, jewelry and a minimum of $1,000 a month...
Struggle for the Minimum. A meticulous dandy, Matisse wears a light tweed jacket and tie when he is painting. Never using a palette, he squeezes the colors on to plain white kitchen dishes and uses them just as they come out of the tube, except for the addition of a little turpentine. Each picture starts with a fairly detailed charcoal sketch; he gradually simplifies it as he paints. This process of simplification, he says, is the very symbol of his life: "A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements...
...Cleveland) and will speak in its defense on a radio program named Books on Trial. Coward-McCann's bird has already been taken under the hot wing of the Literary Guild, thus assuring Britain's Old Mother Goudge (who wrote the best-selling Green Dolphin Street) a minimum first printing of 615,000 copies...