Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chosen few proves the pit-fall it threatens to be, the Fellowships may develop into a state of affairs similar to that reached by the Dean's List. It is this happy medium which insures a freedom for individual study and at the same time provides a less ephemeral form of attack than that afforded by a complete lack of organized study...
...reprimand TIME'S correspondent for failing to see Mr. Coolidge rise to shake hands with Mr. Hoover at the Inauguration when no less a personage than Sir Walter Raleigh himself was deceived by his own eyes...
...bring to their dinner tables the diplomats: Belgium's Prince de Ligne, Canada's Vincent Massey, England's Sir Esme Howard, Cuba's Señor Ferrara, Germany's Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Hungary's Count Szechenyi, France's Paul Claudel. Less smart, but kept quite busy, are Austria's Prochnik, Italy's de Martino, Japan's Debuchi,* Mexico's Telles, Spain's Padilla y Bell. After them, courted by hostesses on their way up or down, come the Balkan and Latin-American diplomats...
...Newcomers arrived in Washington sometime after the turn of the century. They are the active stagemanagers who keep the official actors moving rapidly from one dining room set to the next. They are mostly Wet. They play bridge and poker, go in for costume parties. Their parties are less exclusive than the Cave-dwellers', but they seldom give their guest lists to the newspapers...
...balance sheet were somewhat puzzled to account for the ten million dollar estimate of size. The company had $186,000 cash on hand and in banks, $350,000 in the call loan market, some $78,000 in fixed assets. Of its $9,509,866.44 total assets, no less than $8,892,604.89 consisted of book value of patents and patent rights...