Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most planes nowadays is a broad canvas belt to be strapped across the passenger's lap. It keeps him from being tossed out of an open plane and, in case of crash, from being hurled the length of the cabin. When necessary he can unfasten the belt in less than one second...
Bird In Hand. Playwright John Drinkwater heretofore has dealt chiefly with such authentic characters as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart, Oliver Cromwell, Robert E. Lee. It is strange but not unsatisfactory to see him turn now to less historic folk, men and women who are caricatured for the sake of a good time...
Hitherto it had proved impossible to gain general acceptance of any definite figure in respect to any of the huge sums involved. But the Young Memorandum, secret, was understood to lay down as fixed beyond all need of further dickering this principle: Germany will pay the Allies not less than the total they owe the United States in War debts-namely...
...Carter, Paris Morgan Partner, representing J. Pierpont Morgan. Although suffering from a heavy cold, Mr. Morgan at the last moment disregarded the advice of physicians and sped by motor to attend the simple service held for Mr. Herrick at the Paris Pro-Cathedral. That edifice is capable of holding less than 1,000, and an appalling crush ensued...
...political crisis there is a law-championed by the Communists and fought by the Catholics-which today enables the working people of Vienna to rent houses for next to nothing by paying their landlords at the pre-War rate in the pre-War currency of Imperial Austria, now worth less than half of its former value. It is not news that Catholic War Minister Karl Vaugoin openly advocates the proclamation of a Fascist Dictatorship, while Communist Otto Bauer, onetime Foreign Minister, is quite as eager to proclaim a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Finally there is not space in which...