Word: minimum
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...effective only if its aims are identical with those of Congress. There is no indication that such is the case. Senator Taft is in favor of the Marshall Plan and aid to Europe, but on a scale far below that which the State Department deems a rock-bottom minimum. Representative Taber, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is not convinced that France and Italy need help. House Majority Leader Hallcck asserts that Mr. Truman's requests will be "shot full of holes" by the time Congress gets through with them; while Speaker Martin feels the whole thing...
...from fifteen minutes to three-quarters of an hour, as against five minutes at New York's Public Library. By dropping the circulation desk to the ground floor and installing a much discussed book conveyor at each stack level, Widener patrons could obtain necessary references with maximum speed and minimum nail-biting. These technical improvements do not require any long-term project for execution: the only basic requirement is a little hard cash...
Refreshingly different from other college libraries in its minimum fines and restrictions, Widener is loath to revert to the edict of 1931 and expel every student caught defacing a book. But in view of the wholesale destruction of bound newspaper copies, the cross-hatching of back examination forms, and the tendency to question the statements of unpopular authors with ink and bad taste, the library staff may be forced to apply thumb screws where simple warnings fail. However, even the most stringent regulations would only tax the ingenuity of college doodle bugs; any real amelioration of the situation must come...
Most phenomenal individual effort among his canvassers, said Goldberg last night, was the work of Robert Knox '51, whose soliciting of Lionel Hall's B-entry netted a $105 total, one dollar more per resident than the requested minimum contribution...
...point program, set forth set he minimum demands of the League, was put before the conclave last night at Phillips Brooks House...