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Word: less (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this field the opportunities for large earnings do not come early. The man who starts in will get probably a little less than he would in any other field. With some Companies, decidedly less. Instead of the $25.00 or $30.00 a week that Insurance or Telephone Companies offer, the novitiate in investment banking will get $15.00 to $25.00, and his chances for an increase do not make themselves manifest for something like an entire year. At the end of several years, however, his earning capacity has probably passed that of the men who have entered the other industries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...indication of origin shall be conspicuously and durably marked in ink on the shell of each imported egg in letters not less than two millimetres in height...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...husband, on the day before the recent Italo-Papal Treaty, Concordat and Financial Agreement was signed (TIME, Feb. 18). Such was the iron efficacy of Dictator Benito Mussolini's censorship that the Italian press had not yet printed a single word of what was to occur. None the less the Pontiff's niece, like everyone else, had heard rumors, and she asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Wicked Widow | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...funny it looks and sounds after all these years, the actors fall into too-broad burlesque. Moreover, the producers have" sought to modernize the script here and there, and for the Amazons who marched their hourglass figures before the oglers of 1866, have been substituted some more or less fleshless girls of the 1929 model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: In Hoboken | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Common law the division of crimes into Treason, Felonies and Misdemeanors was in a rough way a fairly sensible division. Felonies were grave crimes all named and defined that seriously threatened the social security and all felons were subject to the death penalty. Misdemeanors were crimes of a less serious nature and included all crimes not felonies or treason. But under the Federal law a crime is a felony or a misdemeanor according to the penalty attached there to and if the crime carries with it a maximum penalty of less than a year as was the case with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JONES-STALKER BILL DISCUSSED BY BURNS | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

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