Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area is also badly overcrowded, especially in the younger age brackets. Compared with the city average of 24.2 children per acre, Neighborhood Four has about one acre of land for each 53.5 children. Play space is at a minimum...
...timber in a straight competitive sale, since the larger companies can afford to pay more than the timber is worth in order to deprive the smaller operators and hence force them out of the area. The large company, having then no competitors, can buy National Forest timber at the minimum price...
Budapest-born Arthur Koestler was the first to dramatize the theory that a strong shot of ideological doubletalk, administered with a minimum of sleep, was enough to persuade an old Communist to confess to, and even agree to be shot for, errors he had not committed. Though a brilliant anti-Communist novel, Koestler's Darkness at Noon left the lingering impression that the Communist inquisitors won by superior cunning...
...ammendment is passed by the committee, it still would require a minimum of about four years to become part of the state constitution, since it must pass two successive sessions of the state legislature and a referendum...
...Laffer of Cleveland's Clevite Corp. says: "In electronics, for example, where there is a fast-changing technology, equipment is frequently outdated as soon as it is designed," and every industry, from aviation to petrochemicals, is learning that five years is frequently the maximum instead of the minimum productive life for a new piece of industrial equipment...