Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmer claims to be poor.* He insists he can't pay his old debts, much less contract fresh ones for such new-fangled electrical equipment. So in an attempt to elevate his economic standing and put electric milkers, pigpen warmers and auto- matic cornhuskers within his reach, the Committees on Agriculture of the House and Senate last week began hearings on legislation for his relief...
...shake some of the paralysis out of the Illinois paretics that the Hershfield group infected them. Only ten patients died during the treatment, and of those only two deaths could be directly attributed to the infection. Of the others, Dr. Hershfield reported last week, half were more or less physically improved and 20% showed some mental improvement...
This has been done with a modesty, in a silence, which many a journalist chooses to confuse with mystery. The Brothers Behn are never interviewed, rarely photographed. Nothing less than a royal occasion persuaded Brother Sosthenes, in 1924, to pose with the nobles, the diplomats and churchmen of Spain. The occasion was, of course, the opening of the new Spanish telephone system, and royalty was present in the person of His Most Catholic Majesty, King Alphonso XIII...
...light and not too well written farce by the Hungarian Sil-Vara, made vastly entertaining by the direction of Philip Moeller and the fine playing of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The Guild still sponsors that five hour marathon by O'Neill, "Strange Interlude", whose latest and far less successful play, "Dynamo" closes tonight...
...first knowledge Craig had of the theft of his piece was when he went to see "Weary River". He was stunned to hear his song played to less than eight times in addition to being sung by Richard Barthelmess...