Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Senate: ¶ Passed the Minimum Wage...
...Increase the minimum school-leaving age from 12 to 16; make higher education "the opportunity for the many rather than the privilege...
...Master teed up against Byron Nelson, 34, the modern mechanical marvel. Most of the way, Jones matched Nelson shot for shot. Bobby's haymaker swing, accentuated wrist motion, and hula hip motion seemed incurably individualistic beside Byron's three-quarters swing, and minimum of motion...
...Washington last week the farm bloc started playing patty cake with parity again. The Russell-Pace rider to the minimum wage-increase bill was purely & simply a scheme for inflating the parity price formula by the addition of farm wages. To the farmer it would mean a solid 33% boost. March's parity wheat prices, for example, would be upped from $1.58 to $2.10; the nation's overhead food bill would go up $4.5 billions...
...Harvard has first rate science teachers," he continues, "but too many of the elementary courses here are taught only for the benefit of men preparing to concentrate in that department. Everybody should have a minimum understanding of the basic scientific principles underlying our civilization; to that and I think many more general courses should be offered...