Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalled that 9,500,000 tons of British shipping have to be protected every day "on lines of communications extending over 80,000 miles." For years the Admiralty considered 70 cruisers the minimum requirement (less than one to every thousand miles), but this number has now been reduced...
Moreover, Mr. Lunt proves the rightness of his theory about make-up that actors, these days, rely all too much on the grease-paint and liner for their characters, whereas real art demands that the minimum be used--just enough to project the features--and the facial contours, shadows and high-lights of the character be brought out almost entirely by the actor's mental command of his muscles. See Mr. Lunt in the third act of "Meteor" and he seems on the verge of middle years, with his face lined by the lines of egocentricity. Notice...
Incidentally, it is very surprising that 10 meals for $7.50 represents the lowest estimate of the Harvard dining room management. For--to add but one reason to the many already given--at one club at Harvard with an unsubsidized dining-room and an expected minimum of twenty persons at a meal, meals are being offered singly, at 11 for $6.00, and at 6 for $3.75 lunches and dinners alone, with second helpings, soup and salad, and all very good because of the free competition of other eating places...
...daily occupations of the subjects under study would have been a matter of the greatest expense. A knowledge of the subject was necessary so that the operator might know when to start and stop the camera in order to cut down the waste of film to a minimum and yet get all the essentials...
Three afternoons a week is the minimum time allowance for Chemistry 22, and those of us who aren't so bright usually spend four. But it is one of the most interesting laboratory courses open to the undergraduates, and if one is at all fascinated with the complexities of organic chemistry it should prove a very worth while course. It is fully as interesting as Chemistry 2 is dull, because here you are dealing with the things themselves, and pot merely with their names...