Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday-school man," blood (TIME, June 17). When the defense succeeded in moving the trial of the 16 defendants-young union textile workers including six Communists from the North -from hysterical Gastonia to calmer Charlotte, the mob subsided. Radical Labor, muttering that here was another Sacco-Vanzetti case, had less to say. Melodrama was the introduction. A bulky something was wheeled in before the jury. The covering was whipped off to reveal a wax dummy of the slaughtered man, staring, pallid. Madness brought an interval. When a juryman, brooding long on hell and damnation, broke down and was carried yelling...
...obscured the light which now radiates from Hanover. He revitalized the once somnolent institution, and President Hopkins has carried on the tradition. The green-jerseyed players and the thousands of supporters of the Indians' fortune who will be in the Stadium this afternoon represent a new Dartmouth, born less than fifty years...
Harvard men he characterized as 'less glowing and gregarious' than Yale men. Commenting on a certain student from a standard Boston family, he said, 'He appears to be the possessor of but two adjectives, "bully" and "rotten."' When I asked him about X's Class Day oration, he answered, 'Robust commonplace.' Of a graduate who had written somewhat irresponsibly about Harvard, he observed, 'He is not a scientific person.' Of the place to which women were relegated when waiting for books in the University Library, he said, 'A pen is provided for them...
...companion piece, "Hold Your Man", the less said about this, the better. Laura La Plante holds forth for six reels in a movie devoid of plot, acting, or any other reedeeming feature, and the aggregate is merely a waste of good film...
...jobs between athletes and non-athletes is to have this phase of the situation handled by the Employment Office. The actual direction of the men given positions, however, might well be taken over by some individual or organization familiar with the operation of such enterprises and more or less in touch with the policies of the H. A. A. in the conduct of affairs on Soldiers Field...