Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great virtue in Dean Sperry's treatment of his material is his impersonality. A less skillful writer would have tried to force his own beliefs into his study of others. Dean Sperry, however, meets the layman on his own ground, discussing the material in the light of modern psychology, modern philosophy, and modern literary thought. He does not seek to glorify or debase but merely to explain in terms of modern thought what these "Classics of Christian Devotion" were trying to say. The reader is left to judge for himself whether what was said was worth saying...
...Less gifted in the controversy than the faculty is Mr. Loewi, author of an article on the "Feild Case." Without prejudice to the rights or wrongs of the now painful Case, a reviewer may point out the unwisdom of painting the devil all black. Dryden praised Achitophe the judge and Pope allowed Atticus true genius. Mr. Loewi shows a want of imagination, or at least of strategy, in claiming that the Department of Fine Arts was moved solely by personal vindictiveness in failing to reappoint Professor Feild...
...obvious, says Zimmerman, that the professional, scientific approach to a subject will prove less appealing to students than the highly-colored presentation of the grandstander. His statement implies that teaching popularity can quite easily become damaging to scientific integrity if allowed to become a predominant criterion of selection for permanent faculty posts...
...explained that the average Britisher until a short time ago could not recognize the Sudeten problem as one to worry about, "until the Munich awakening made the British feel that they would go to war for much less than they would have during the twenties. And today, England is infinitely more alive to the danger than she was a week ago, because, for one thing, the prospect of a man breaking his work--witness Hitler--shocks the Britisher deeply...
BUCHAREST--Rumania was understood tonight to have informed Great Britain and France that she is reconciled to "more or less" entering the orbit of German influence despite whatever promises of strong support might be forthcoming from the western powers...