Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House the President summoned High Tariff Lieutenant-General Watson and Generalissimo Smoot. He asked first one, then the other about prospects of Tariff Bill early passage in the Senate. Mournfully Senator Watson predicted that the special tariff session of the Senate would end without passing any Tariff Bill. Less pessimistic. Senator Smoot conceded a "chance" of a final Senate vote on the tariff next month...
...Virgin Mary. Custom demands that not only must the girl chosen be a virgin but she must remain unmarried for one year afterward. Hansi, ablest virgin actress, is engaged to an engineer in the power plant. So the tactful electors awarded her the role of Mary Magdalene, less important, more nubile...
...Billy" Hughes, safely elected to Parliament, was less polite to the swan sung Bruce. Said...
...dictatorship, undaunted by the opposition of rebellious spirits, will work out a formula for accomplishing this colossal task. Success means the salvation of Spanish economic life and development. . . . Tremendous quantities of electricity can be conserved by retiring earlier. . . . By eating less and working more we shall grow less fat and more efficient than is now the case...
...recent Papal decree, nuns have supplanted priests as inspectors of feminine attire in the Vatican in the belief that nuns would be "less indulgent of impropriety...