Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a decrease in this year's Freshman class of 22 men whose adenoids and tonsils have--been removed. The Freshman class musters two more appendices than does the Sophomore, while 28 more Freshmen have bad teeth and six less smoke...
...this damp and draughty meeting-place of wintry winds and rains was ever chosen for the seat of a university. While Oxford cannot boast of the yellow, strangling fogs which infest London and turn her days into hideous night, she can offer a specimen of a sort no less disagreeable to newcomers. For a few hours at least during these quiet winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars' Hill, and Shot-over. The dome of the Radcliffe Camera, the spires and towers...
Essex. "Leicester . . . appointed him General of the Horse. The post was less responsible than picturesque, and Essex performed its functions perfectly...
...Less panoramic than Black April, and therefore the less powerful, Author Peterkin's present volume is nevertheless a compelling story of human character in elemental contact with love, growth, death. Rich in pathos, it also sparkles with the amusing antics, and ridiculous superstitions of the primitive race...
...Conklin's twitching face, they laugh; when a hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis' less terrifying plays was mainly brought about by Director Benjamin Christensen who gave a trite plot (heirs looking for money in a millionaire's mansion) better treatment than it deserved...