Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lucky, socalled, a greasy and peculiar police-bitch, swam from Albany to Manhattan down the Hudson River in 44 hr., 52 min. Such human beings as have also swum from Albany to New York, though enraged to discover that the bitch had done it in five hours less than the best of them, were comforted to discover that she swam only two hours at a stretch, while their intervals of paddling had been longer...
...most important matter connected with the growth and well-being of the United States. . . ." Besides shipping, his financial attachments include railroads, banking, the American Railway Express Co., Wright Aeronautical Corporation, the American Russian Chamber of Commerce. All of these he regards seriously though he speaks of them less frequently and less pompously than of his boating. In fact, William Averell Harriman is serious about almost everything he does. He is vigilant over a great boys' club in Manhattan slums; his farm in Arden, N. Y., is run upon an efficient, not a sporting, plan and it produces each year...
...town for a breakfast-food factory. No remittance-man he; his accent was not that of an Englishman, but of a U. S. Southerner. His appearance was not that of an Englishman come to make good in the Dominion, but of a U. S. business man, albeit he was less jovial, perhaps a little harder than most U. S. citizens. As suddenly as they had begun, the man's wanderings ceased. The police had some questions to ask him. The most important question was, "Are you Clinton S. Carnes?" When the man said he was Clinton S. Carnes...
...Coffin's letter only partially counteracts Moderator Walker's call for Hoover votes on behalf of "Christ & Church." It does, however, leave the Presbyterian church much less unanimously in politics than other communions. In order of the pro-Hoover activity of their ministers, the principal Protestant denominations were ranked last week as follows: Methodists, Lutherans, Baptists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians (almost no campaigning...
...services now charge practically the same prices. What land wireless rates will do to land wire rates no one before the Federal Radio Commission last week could estimate. President Simon of the Inter-City Radio Telegraph Co. stated that his rates between Great Lake ports were 20% less than the telegraph companies' rates...