Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YORK--A less favorable turn in news developments and technical considerations brought an adverse reaction into the stock market today...
...Less pleased were Mr. Cover and his boss, President Donald Wills Douglas, with the sales potentialities of DC-5's big, four-motored brother DC-4, now completed at a reputed development cost...
...Less reserved or more inquisitive, CBS, whose supplementary survey used the same interviewers, quizzed 10,273 of the same people, last week let go all answers it could get. These would have CBS customers believe that fully four-fifths of all rural homes use packaged soap, cereal, coffee, cleanser; 92% use toothpaste or powder, 77% wrapped bread; that 89% of rural women use face powder, 66% lipstick or rouge. Least used were canned soup (49%), canned tomato or fruit juice (46%), condensed milk (37%). For CBS, the interviewers found out that 80.9% of the families questioned listened...
...ounce of cod-liver oil, for vitamin A; half a lemon twice weekly, for vitamin C. If two ounces of dried skim-milk powder are available, brewers' yeast can be omitted. Other corrections: growing children need more cod-liver oil and skim-milk powder than adults, but less salt. If lemons or oranges are not available, the committee suggests that scurvy can be avoided by steeping any nonpoisonous green leaves in boiling water and making tea. Greatest lack in the diet is fat. For this less important element, the committee could offer only the lame suggestion that "fat [should...
...publishers' readers "made bold to class this unusual first novel with The Bridge of San Luis Rey." A bold blurb, it is something less than accurate. The main aptness of the comparison is that Author Myers' story also collapses, too lightly constructed to support its load of symbolism...