Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were required to sit in the Wooster Chapel at the minimum of four days a week all through a school year and listen to nothing but Bach and Professor Gore's interpretations of same, you would certainly welcome a little of Gounod's "sexy" music or the "lull" of Tchaikovsky...
Last week the twelve jurors found arrogant Douglas Chandler guilty of treason. The minimum sentence is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine; the maximum penalty, death. Solemn and mute, his two daughters, Laurette, 21, and Patricia, 18, watched him led away to wait for the court to fix his punishment...
...other end of the scale, the grassy banks of the Charles River looked something like Coney Island during the mid-afternoon. Studying, in spite of omni-present books, seemed at a minimum...
...flood of rhetoric about our obligation to shore up the world's economy through Truman doctrine expenditures, has calmly added to the wool bill an amendment which could very possibly ruin the wool industries of several nations. President Truman's message in vetoing the bill is therefore a minimum statement of sanity on the wool question...
...rubber to be used in tires, is relaxing its wartime restrictions far too slowly for Malaya. In the next 60 days they will be eased again. But the U.S. intends to keep enough controls so that at least 250,000 tons of synthetic rubber will be used annually, the minimum to keep the synthetic industry going. All this is a far cry from 1925, when Britain's "Stevenson plan" to restrict rubber production ran up prices to more than $1 a lb. Recalling those days, a Malayan planter last week wrote to the Singapore Straits Times: "One can hardly...