Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME made no "attack" on Conductor Ormandy, whom it rates highly but less high than Conductors Toscanini, Koussevitzky, or Reader Stokowski's ex-husband...
That tolerant understanding smile (cover) makes one feel a bit less "scrambled...
...means abnormal for a Yardling to profit from his icy plunge into the November Hour Exams and improve his marks by February, reading class or no reading class. And the number of men who were involved was so small that any sweeping generalizations would be unsafe. But none the less, the Psycho-Educational Clinic has been encouraged this year to conduct larger, general reading examinations in an attempt to secure more comprehensive results; and although the records may not be made public until next fall, there is talk of further expansion...
...years, besides all the reviewing we were meant to do, we had to cover a staggering three week assignment within the last fortnight before the examination. In England, both in preparatory schools and varsities, we were always given a "revising-hours" and in consequence we registered less cases of failure than you do over here, and we did not have to resort to crammers. Take a hint from the old world! S. C. Macalester...
...until McClure announced his biggest idea: a chain of commercial companies, a model community. Steffens, Tarbell, a McClure partner, several staff members, resigned in a body. McClure's never recovered. But Ida Tarbell implies that the staff members never functioned quite so well working for themselves or for less trying editors...