Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond this minimum, the University not only required no virtues, it did not even discuss them. Virtue was a minor topic in the philosophy department, seldom discussed since the rise of "modern" analytic methods...
This excellence was certainly not moral. Nobody was concerned about the goodness of undergraduates. Indeed, the University required only that they keep out of trouble with the police, and that they obey a certain minimum of administrative regulations most of which had to do with two national preoccupations: money and sex. Bills must be payed immediately and girls must never be used overtime in rooms...
...fact that it has Henry Heald as president is a significant indication of its development, for few men have won wider respect in business, government and education. An engineer by training and a conservative by temperament, Heald has made an enviable reputation for performing administrative wonders with a minimum of fuss...
...HOUSING BILL will be more generous than Administration expected. Administration wanted to pare minimum down payments on FHA-backed mortgages from current 5% of first $9,000 appraised value to 4% of first $10,000, but Senate and House called for 3% of first $10,000. President Eisenhower asked $1.19 billion in new funds for federal housing agencies, but final figure will be considerably bigger...
...dynamite blast that geysered water of the Detroit River 150 ft. in the air signaled a new era in Great Lakes shipping last week. It set off a $23 million project that will deepen Amherstburg Channel in the Detroit River near Lake Erie to a minimum depth of 27 ft. (from 21 ft.), enable the waterway to take deep-draft ocean-going ships of up to 10,000 tons and shallow-draft lake ships of 25,000 tons- almost double the present capacity. This is the first part of a five-year dredging program to open the upper Midwest...