Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation, Because they look for competent criticism of the very subjects which are on the tips of their tongues, athletic enthusiasts again find in the newspapers renewed satisfaction. Although the headlines are not as incongruously conspicuous as those of three weeks ago the articles are none the less convincing in the dearth of copy sextet supplants eleven and Garden replaces Stadium--if not quite so perfectly as could be desired at least adequately...
When an incalculably rich and potent publisher stoops to the lowly plane of author, and writes a piece for his paper, the subject must be dear to his heart. Last week it was no less a publisher than Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson who appeared as contributor to his nickel weekly, Liberty-His subject was aviation and to adumbrate his emotion he quoted from Kipling (with emendations) as follows...
...Presidents from Cleveland on and talked with several; also Senators, famed preachers, Mark Twain, P. T. Barnum and many another less famed but, to him, equally important...
...White's pit traders. Then he entered the grain market for himself, and during the World War is said to have made more money than any other individual operator. He once accumulated four million bushels of corn, bought at 80? a bushel or less; held them until they sold at from $1.11 to $1.14½; realized a profit of a million dollars. It was in railroad stocks, however, that he made his first market profits. Back in 1904 he bought some 1,500 shares of Soo Line stock at from 54 to 60, sold at 160, made what...
...West Point by slovenliness of person, mediocrity of scholarship, hatred of firearms, and a certain girlish squeamishness of profanity and rough jokes. His femininity was emphasized by a callow appearance-indeed, during leisure hours of the Mexican War, Grant took the part, in amateur theatricals, of Desdemona, no less...