Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was nothing perfunctory about the launching of the Prince of Wales. It came less than three months after the launching of her sister ship, King George...
...Laird & Co., Ltd.'s historic shipyard at Birkenhead. Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, only sister of the Duke of Windsor, said, "I name this ship Prince of Wales. May God guide her and guard and keep all who sail in her." Robert Johnson, head of Cammell Laird, was less restrained: "If I were in Chancellor Hitler's shoes and heard of the wonderful speed at which we can turn out our ships, I think I'd turn on my axis...
...show gives evidence of enormous energy among U. S. artists. Less evident is their collective importance. Seldom old-fogy, often bold, they are oftener members of a school, children of an era, than unmistakable individuals. Attesting the show's variety are such pictures as Benton's quiet, lonesome Conversation; Doris Lee's whimsical, clever Holiday (see cut); Joe Hirsch's Two Men (see cut) which, using a very broad, low canvas, catches breadthwise the gaunt intensity of two workers; Jack Levine's Rouault-like Night Scene, where the ruddy heads and hands...
This week, in a book of 850 pages, Professor Opdycke pointed out and tried to correct the English-speaking world's most common errors. His book, less authoritative but more entertaining than famed H. W. Fowler's Modern English Usage, is titled Don't Say It!† Highlights...
Highest score was made by Chicago's Donald Wallace Connor, who got 211 of the 290 questions. Said a less successful examinee: "Anyone who could pass that test doesn't need to go to college...