Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Less sure of himself was another Chilean, 20-year-old Luis Ramirez Olachea, who hid nervously behind a tree while President Ibaez inspected cows. As SeÑor IbaÑez made his august emergence, Luis Olachea stumbled uncertainly through the ranks of saluting soldiery, ran forward, waving a rusty revolver. President Ibaez fixed him with an icy stare...
...caring for'* a more or less definite number of athletes, somewhat less formally than by awarding athletic scholarships." (The number discovered at the following institutions varied from 25 to 50: Bucknell, Gettysburg, Muhlenberg, Oglethorpe, Pennsylvania State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia Wesleyan...
...Motors would have been lucky to get $15,000 for his stock on October 29th. Goldman-Sachs' famed Blue Ridge investment trust which was to share in the entire sweep of U. S. prosperity was sold at $3 per share. Dozens of stocks of huge companies sold for less than half of what somebody had once said they were worth. So nonsensical did all this seem that some brokers refused to sell out their customers even when technically they might have. But the awful expected began to happen when one brokerage house, John J. Bell & Co., was suspended. What...
...American, once noted as a pedestrian, commercially-minded "success-story" magazine, under Editor Crowell had been growing somewhat more sprightly, less reflective of the Alger-like business careers of button kings. Prominent among contributors in the American's November issue are Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Biographer Emil Ludwig, Funnyman George McManus, Authors Ellis Parker Butler, Alice Duer Miller, Will Irwin. In circulation, too, has the American grown. When Editor Crowell first grasped the pencil-scepter, the American claimed a paltry 1,900,000 readers. When his weary fingers relinquished their grip, 350,000 had been added...
...Tire & Rubber's rosy-round company dentist, last week took some gold used for making inlays and bridges, melted it, poured it into a plaster-of-paris mold. The resulting gold rod was about the size of a girl's eye tooth. It weighed two pennyweights, worth less than $2 in coin value and not more than $5 as dental gold. As a golden rivet, however, its intrinsic value was incalculable, for it | was made to be fastened into the highest j part of the biggest ("master") rib-ring of the biggest dirigible yet planned...