Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ceremony for the promulgation of the general Treaty for the Renunciation of War, because, as Chairman of the American Committee for the Outlawry of War, to him belonged much unofficial credit for originating the idea of making war illegal. Ceaseless agitator for peace, he had been recommended by no less a journal than the Manchester Guardian for the Nobel Peace Prize. Quite happy now, he sat back, watched the culmination of his endeavors...
...capital he had journeyed over night to attend the White House promul gation of the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War, creature of his own administration (see col. 1). Observers studied him sharply for changes, found that he talked more freely, smiled more benignly, looked a little less plump, a little less wrinkled about the eyes than when he had left the White House. If he had any regrets on revisiting the scenes of his political triumphs' he muffled them under a flow of small-bore conversation...
...question about farming which he cannot answer he says: "I don't know. That's not reticence. It's ignorance." Once a Missouri legislator was haranguing him about cattle and beef. The talk wandered endlessly afield until Governor Hyde cut in with: "I'd like more meat and less wind. if it's all the same...
...rich man who owns no private car may rent one from the Pullman Co. at a minimum rate of $175 for two days or less and $75 per day thereafter, in addition to carrying charges...
...Current expenditures . . . of the Army and Navy constitute the largest military budget in the world and at a time when there is less real danger of extensive disturbance to peace than at any time in more than half a century...