Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seldom a handshaker, Col. Lindbergh is even less often a "joiner." For him it has been boasted that the only air clubs to which he belongs are the Caterpillar club (parachutests) and the Q. B. (Quiet Birdmen). Last fortnight he paid $1,000 to join Aviation Country Clubs, Inc., electing as his home club the one which is to be erected at Hicksville...
...more than 50 people witnessed the Manger feats last week in the amateur weight-lifting championships of the U. S. The reason for that was the bouts were held in Manhattan's German-American Athletic Club, an out-of-the-way little place on an island full of less static entertainment than grunting men lifting lifeless burdens...
...Novel, and it won him "immediate recognition as a young writer of distinction." Published now in this country, The Merry Heart is subtitled "A Gentle Melodrama," involving as it does the death of villain and the charming capers of a gay, cynical young hero. The complicated plot is only less fortuitous than that of Swinnerton's latest novel, A Brood of Ducklings −Hero Locritus tracks down the villain who has absconded with his sister Fanny, only to discover that the same villain has kept his, Locritus's, sweetheart Margaret out of her inheritance. At a single...
...Pulitzer Prize novel (Early Autumn). Awake and Rehearse includes a third sort of American, the Henry James-Edith Wharton expatriate variety. Bubbling over with abundance of "material," Author Bromfield has been praised for having much to say, blamed for saying it hastily in slovenly prose. This time he says less, says it better. Awake and Rehearse is a macabre title for a group of 13 stories (four are new; nine have appeared in magazines), each of which concerns death in the form of a corpse, or a jar of human ashes, or eyes with the light gone out of them...
...newsprint, was selling its paper at $75 per ton and making only a moderate profit. It was evident that the price of newsprint was going down (it is now about $55). Mr. Graustein was made president of International with instructions to save it from disaster. He closed its less efficient plants. Paper plants are usually on waterpower sites. International found itself with much unused waterpower. International added "Power" to its name, bought into the New England Power Association, became a seller of electricity. The paper business was in a bad way. In 1928 the gross income of International...