Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When drinking ale he often retires to a lavatory and scrubs feverishly at his glass to get the bugs off it. He frequently refuses to shake hands. Instead, he extends only his little finger, thus exposing a minimum of his person to bacilli and micrococci...
Britons, however, were openly flouting Cripps's decision. A nation which had accepted food rationing and other controls with a minimum of black-marketing rebelled at the ban on private motoring. "The law is falling into a disrepute which reminds one of the U.S. during Prohibition," wrote one independent M.P. to the London Times. The regional petroleum office in the Midlands reported a religious revival, with thousands wanting gas to drive to churches more than two miles from their homes. Many a motorist felt new pangs of rheumatism, sciatica, or old war wounds which made it quite impossible...
...heads of his audience to the nation's voters. It was as frankly designed to cut the ground from under his presidential rivals. There was something in it for everyone: for minorities (strengthened civil rights legislation), for farmers (continued price supports and crop insurance), for labor (a 75? minimum wage, up from 40?), for the foreign-born (admission of D.P.s...
...high gravity of the oil (it is almost pure gasoline), and the depth of the oil-saturated strata (about 1,700 ft., the deepest of its kind ever found), caused experts to guess that the pool may contain a minimum of 50 million barrels, a maximum of 600 million barrels. In honor of Old Mike, the area was named Benedum Field...
...reject its message right from the beginning. The gentleman's agreement is a compact of silence, it says, and these who tacitly, even if unwillingly, accept anti-semitism as a part of the social system are as guilty as the active bigots. This point is made with a minimum of declamatory speeches: a burning issue has been put frankly before the eyes of the public, and the overall excellence of the movie as a movie should attract many besides the already ardent...