Word: minimums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idiom is changed. It is no surprise that Schlemmer's canvas lacks the aristocracy of truly resolved expression. One can even understand how Otto Muller's canvas of the gal who lost her Maiden-form, can get by, utterly lacking, as it is, in substance and the very minimum diginity a work of art ought to possess...
...humans are continually dividing, man may never hope to achieve an insect's resistance. But Dr. Baldwin is hopeful that the study of his kissing bugs will lead to basic knowledge of how radiation damages cells and what can be done to reduce such damage to a minimum...
...Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor was not the star of the show. "What can I serve you in the way of triples?" they asked, as they tried to turn the customers' minds back to the main business of the house. "You'll need three drinks to use up your minimum, and I can't serve you anything once Mr. Fisher starts to sing...
...State minimum requirements cannot insure that able students are "sufficiently encouraged to elect a broad, stiff program of academic subjects," he pointed out, adding that "At the local level, however, a good deal can be done by counselors and by the development of the proper spirit in the school and the community by the principal and superintendent...
...reading, and to concentrate more upon marks. In the long run, girls come out ahead, Edward P.Morris, head tutor of the Department of Romance Languages, says. This superiority, however, is not due to innate ability, but rather to "instilled habits." "Fewer girls than boys get E's. Their average minimum level of conscientiousness is probably higher than the boys'," I. Bernard Cohen, associate professor of the History of Science, points out. "Whenever I've heard of someone spending a preposterous amount of time on some project like a paper, it has generally been a girl. For instance I read...