Word: minimum
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...efficiency by making some sort of single service out of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Astern of Wilson even the signals from the flagship were unclear after Dwight Eisenhower said that tighter interservice unification perhaps could produce "considerable" savings, even though the present budget was "a bare minimum...
...physicists that bomb tests are safe, Dr. Stern says: "These statements are not based on scientific principle." Starting with Dr. Libby's own statement that fallout has increased back ground radiation by only 0.7% to 3%, Dr. Stern estimates that even this slight increase will cause a minimum of 180,000 genetic mutations in a 30-year generation of 200 million Americans. His colleague, Physiologist Hardin Jones, backs...
Speed limits on the highway are 60 m.p.h., maximum, and 40 m.p.h., minimum, and will be enforced by turnpike police travelling in green stationwagons. Passenger car charges range from 15 cents, from Weston to Natick, to $2.45, to the N.Y. state line...
...minimum age for admission to the Arkansas bar was 21, but Ike wangled special legislative permission for John to take the required oral test at 17. John scored a 90, 15 points above passing, and became the youngest lawyer in Arkansas...
With these few exceptions, the formal element in Gerassi's painting has been reduced to a minimum. What the pictures lack in content of line and structure, they make up in color and texture. The result is "a warm and sunny kind of innocence." Gerassi's preference for emotion over thought is expressed even by the fact that curves take precedence over straight lines or angles. When angularity occurs it is usually accompanied by a more structural effort, where space and form are more defined, as in "Ulysses." But on the whole, the curve, that is the lyric sense, prevails...