Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present time many colleges still have rules forbidding students with connubial connections, presupposing that the duties of the home will prevent paying proper attention to university activities. They forget that such functions as undergraduate dances with happily married couples will be much less disconcerting affairs than they are at present. Such events as unofficial competitions to attain the honor of being the most popular girl will be distinctly discouraged. And, the time formerly wasted in trying to attain the favors of the college widow or her male prototype will be devoted to the profitable occupation of helping the wife with...
Since the President has stated that contemplated changes in public service would not require a large recruiting of new personnel, he will undoubtedly draft his diplomats from more ornate but less exacting service in European posts, to add prestige to South American embassies. The proposed plan is in accord with the experienced organizing ability of Mr. Hoover, and diplomats will soon learn that the needs of the service outweigh the personal preferences of those who are a part...
...There is no correlation between honesty of children's actions and their attendance or non-attendance at Sunday school. In general children coming from private schools were found to cheat less than those from public schools, but this is no indictment against the latter institutions: It is merely a statement of fact regarding the actions of the average child. Furthermore, pupils in progressive schools cheat less on the average than those in conventional schools...
...schools in their various phases as represented by Corot, Millet, Monet, Manet, and Renoir. The work of these men is well known in Boston, and the Committee has assembled only a few of their paintings to illustrate the continuity of nineteenth century development and to lead up to the less known post-impressionists--Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and others...
...goods go through the hands of at least one sales representative. The general field of salesmanship has shown many changes in the last forty or fifty years. Originally there was the drummer whose chief function was simply to unload; then came the salesman who again tried more or less to unload the product, but who usually sought to do a more intelligent job than had previously been done. As business has developed the purchasing agent has come into being, the service element has been stressed, sales methods developed for the benefit of the retailer, until now the term "travelling representative...