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Word: less (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Less advanced instructions will be doled out to the Freshmen showing the efficacy of dodging the singles that bask beneath the arches. How to break a rudder rope and not get it tangled with the bow, how to get into a shell after a crew has pushed off, without adopting the woeful methods of Buster Keaton, and how to steer a course nor'nor' east by nor' through the murky haze of the basin will be considered in every detail. The hardest feat to master, that of coxing two miles in a tight race and keeping the remnants of vocal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospective Coxswains to Gain Steersman's Lingo Seasoned With Billinsgate--Special Course Given to Aid Vocabulary | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

There is another consideration less evident at first sight. A significant result of the first two contests has been the relations that have been established between the offices of the Times and the leaders in the examinations. Last year the winner of the competition, a Princeton senior, secured a permanent position on the editorial board and in many other cases contacts were made that should prove productive in later years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEWS REQUIREMENT | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

...such as is often passed permitting a jury to convict of murder without capital punishment would take care of less serious cases and of cases where there is a shadow of doubt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS SOLE CHECK FOR MURDERS | 2/13/1929 | See Source »

With a 3 to 2 score against them the B. A. A. forwards stormed the Harvard cage and Hilliard slipped an easy shot between Newell's legs a minute after the opening whistle. He followed it less than a minute later with a hard drive which resulted from a brilliant, unassisted dash down the ice. Harvard's fighting pitch was aroused by the B. A. A. lead of 4 to 3 and its sallies toward the B. A. A. goals, usually led by Lakin, were determined. A beautiful shot by F. R. G. Giddens '30 evened the count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.A.A. TURNS BACK CRIMSON 6 TO 4 IN STARTLING UPSET | 2/13/1929 | See Source »

...first days when Russia dared declare herself artistically, when French frippery first seemed foolish and the longings of the Slavic soul important. Great Russian composers are Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky. They too with Glinka. Balakirev and Cui were pioneers in the school of realism. Yet compared with the less Russian Tchaikovsky their fame has spread so slowly that even today outside Russia Moussorgsky is known for his Boris Godounov alone and that in the refined version of Rimsky-Korsakov made popular by Basso Feodor Chaliapin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moussorgsky | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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