Word: less
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...students from the Senior Class whose mathematical records would not qualify them for consideration but whose eligibility was incontestable. As years went on this number increased from five to ten and even to 15. This power granted the electing body to search beneath the College grades and to recognize less regular but definite intellectual successes succeeded as calculated in making membership in Phi Beta Kappa a still greater honor than it had been before...
...fourth successive year, the Boston Latin School of which Mr. Patrick T. Campbell is headmaster, has won the Scholarship Trophy offered by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The competition is open to all schools in the United States which prepare not less than seven boys for college, but a competing school need not send any of its boys to Harvard...
...numerous offspring from the original All-American teams make great food for the linotype and serve many a luncheon club with heated discussion topics but it won't be long before the whole business is at a standstill. The rapid generation of new and less inclusive teams to satisfy the longings of those who wish to see their favorite on some battalion of honor needs but a season or two to produce the irreducible minimum. When the all eastern eleven becomes divided into an all Hanover team, an all Cambridge team, an all New Haven team, and so on down...
...feet above the Mer de Glace, in company with a young guide and an American climber. This cliff has the longest sheer drop on the mountain--perhaps 1,000 feet. The older guide who ranked as the second best in Chamonix led the way while the two less experienced climbers followed. It was the duty of the younger guide to 'belay' the rope to a rock while the older guide ascended to the next ledge or resting place. This he did by taking a turn of the line around a rock. In one instance while the leader was ascending...
...lazy, rambling hamlet of less than 500 population on the long sandy reef that tidies up the ragged eastern shore of North Carolina. The reef at Kitty Hawk encloses Albemarle Sound; further south it makes Pamlico Sound...