Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publisher Hearst was just 24 hours late. President Hoover had already made a move no less Hooveresque than Rooseveltian...
Everyone knows how in less than a year Gigolo Subkoff ran through Princess Victoria's $3,000,000 fortune, squandered it on wenches, motors and champagne while she adoringly forgave. Little known in the U. S. are Subkoff's memoirs: Ma Vie et Mes Amours, printed recently at Paris. He writes with surprising decency?for a gigolo?of Princess Victoria, explains as delicately as possible how a youth of 27 can fall in love with a widow...
Whereupon no less than three hundred consecutive dramas with a backstage setting have been produced. The screen critics who are betting men make a comfortable living offering eight to five that each new picture they are forced to attend will deal with the adventures of a song-and-dance team, in which the man is a lovable, but worthless, drunkard and the woman a noble creature who makes sacrifices for him. Occasionally, of course, these gamblers happen to be wrong. Then the photoplay turns out to be a merry narrative of college life, in which the students take excellent courses...
...both these branches have been very successful. One factor which is greatly responsible for this condition is the arrangement of informal contests with outside opponents. Our experience has taught us that intramural contests, especially in football, are not the panacea for the athletic interests of the student of less than varsity calibre. The attendance of intramural athletes has been greatest on the days on which were scheduled informal games with other institutions...
...total number of 47 games played between the Crimson and Blue rivals, Yale has emerged victorious from no less than 27 while Harvard has succeeded in only 14. Six encounters have resulted in ties...