Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Hear ye, hear ye, ye men of fat legs and thin legs, of long legs and short legs; harken, ye seekers after maximum comfort and the minimum of swaddling clothes. Give ear, ye who would be dictators of a fashion and dressed in the style of the hour. We announce the "short," as suitable for all Hanover occasions--full dress, informal afternoon wear, morning lounging apparel. Tomorrow...
...international price-controlling combine. When Copper Exporters was organized, its president Cornelius Kelley of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. optimistically stated that its purpose was to keep the price adjusted to day-to-day conditions in Europe. European consumers, long unwilling to pay 18? for copper, now grudgingly purchasing a minimum at 14?, feel this policy has been violated. In retaliation they have found a weapon-Africa-to wave at the U. S. copper powers...
Among the paintings in this present exhibition, "Tranquillity", the study of a goddess, is done in a minimum of lines and yet is of extreme beauty...
Chambermaids in the student dormitories at Yale are treated even more poorly than were the twenty scrubwomen discharged recently at Harvard, a Yale senior charged in a letter to "The Yale Daily News," printed today. The Harvard scrubwomen were discharged when the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Scale Commission insisted that they should receive not less than 37 cent an hour, in stead of the 35 cents paid to them...
This plan calls for a reduction to a minimum of the cultivation of decorative plants such as horticultural forms and hybrids, double roses, fancy tulips, and other artificial varieties. This entire phase of horticultural endeavor is, however, being taken up by the newly formed Lexington Botanic Garden which is being supported by the Garden clubs and interested persons...