Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farmers received their due from Harry Hopkins, who said: "Our farm homes receive less than 10% of the national income and on that they must bring up about 30% of the nation's children . . . the most important crop raised on the farm...
...them to oust a Moslem population of twice their number. One cannot help but sympathize with these desert dwellers in their fight against inundation by a flood of alien settlers, who have a diametrically opposed philosophy of life. Even if no displacement of population is intended, a minority of less than one-third of the inhabitants should not expect to exercise governmental control...
...English system in requiring of candidates some evidence of broad intellectual attainment instead of technical knowledge. While this method of examination may be an effective bar against the entrance of mediocrities in the service, its use in England proves that it can be undemocratic in excluding the less educated classes. However, the easier accessibility to a college education in this country than in England should help preclude such a possibility...
...carbon atom would disappear for a while, but after a further series of reactions in which three more hydrogen atoms would be used up, the carbon would reappear, ready to be used again. Thus carbon, though not depleted itself, is the agent that annihilates hydrogen, creates energy. A use less end-product, or "ash," is helium...
Sink-&-Float. If a handful of bird shot mixed with sawdust is thrown into a pail of water, the shot will sink, the sawdust float. Reason: the specific gravity of water is greater than wood's, less than lead's. The flotation method of separating ores from waste, using liquids of higher specific gravity than water, has been used for nearly a century. For over three decades E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. has been trying to devise an economical flotation method for separating impurities such as shale and slate from low-grade anthracite coal. For "parting...