Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days before Christmas the writer was looking over a large stock of cards which he wanted to send to friends and less than ten percent of these cards featured anything that had to do with the Christian tradition. This, The Coming of Christ, is by far and away the single event of greatest importance that has ever happened during all time...
Sirs: In this week's issue you make mention of Coolidge shaking the "hand" of a "flea-hound"- but make no note of his shaking another hand- less hairy, more skillful-which during the last year has flown airplanes for 1,251 hours without accident of any kind to plane or personnel, and directed 107 individuals to fly successfully. Lt. J. E. Dyer, U. S. N., was awarded the Herbert Schiff Memorial Trophy for safe flying by President Coolidge on December 15. His record exceeds by nearly 500 hours that of any other winner of the trophy. There...
...college publications as well as our own. . . . Nowhere in the book-will you find COLLEGE HUMOR'S advertising rates published. Therefore when it is stated by anyone, as you have in your column, that by "tacit inference an advertiser can cover substantially the same field for a less amount," it becomes apparent that someone is trying to start something. . . . Relative to the convention held at Minneapolis we have heard from seven of the members who have said they wanted our friendly relationship to continue. One of the members states it thusly: "We have not, do not, and will...
...being paid "in kind" under the Dawes Plan?that is to say in German goods which compete with Allied home production?the creditor powers will find it still to their advantage to knock off something from the German debt in return for a promise of more "cash" and less "kind." 3) The four years covered by the Report do not include the present so-called first Standard Year, in which the German Reparations annuity rises to its final level of 2,500,000,000 marks ($595,000,000). Even Agent General Gilbert cannot know from experience how well the burden...
Throughout the week no slightest mention of the proposed Concordat was made by Il Duce or Il Re. The favorable disposition of His Majesty is well known; but less than a year has passed since Editor Arnaldo Mussolini, brother of Benito, roundly declared in II Popolo d'ltolia that no possibility of a Church-State agreement then existed (TIME, April 9). However the Papal spokesman said, last week, that the rapprochement to which he referred had been negotiated "since September last...