Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better during the pre-examination respite the Department of Hygiene cites the figures for excused absences during January and May 1928. Upper-classmen show the most remarkable improvement, while the first-year men, who come under the influence of the Reading Period only in exceptional cases, have been little less sickly than during the days before the innovation...
...both here and on the continent, this recent victory of a Socialistic party is looked upon as almost the knell of doomsday for England. To any person with even a mediocre knowledge of the British Labor Party this attitude shows little more than prejudice and ignorance, but none the less it is adhered to with a varying degree of conviction by a large number of Americans to whom the word Socialist is synonymous with anarchy, bolshevism, and bomb throwing. The period through which Mr. MacDonald's government holds office will surely be rude awakening for the members of this school...
...average daily number of students absent from college and excused because of sickness was 52 61. This was 3.96 less than the year before. The average number of days of absence per student was 3 04, also less than the year before...
...large General Motors automobile family have come two recent additions: Viking, Marquette. Viking belongs to the Cadillac-La Salle group, employs the famed V-type eight cylinder motor, sells for fess than ($1,595) the La Salle, just as La Salle sells for less than the Cadillac. Marquette is a Buick offspring, made in the Buick plant, sold at $965 to $1,035-considerably less than the Buick figure. The first Vikings were brought out last month; the first Marquettes went on display June...
...thus far we have done nothing really new in aviation. The great thing that must be done, and along essentially new lines, is to get a new type of power plant which will produce more power with less weight...