Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every 100 U. S. citizens who have heard of Thomas Alva Edison, it would be hard to find one who has heard of Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903). Some years ago, however, a gathering of British scientists spouting learned chitchat in a cafe voted Gibbs no less than the greatest U. S. scientist ever...
...Pacific announced a $15,000,000 expansion program-new rails, box cars, locomotives and remodeled coaches. Missouri Pacific ordered $1,500,000 worth of rails. All told, railway-equipment manufacturers said that already this year they had received orders for 375,000 tons of rails, only 25,000 tons less than 1938's total orders...
...Douglas further noted that at election time it is customary for branch offices to instruct their agents to ask policyholders to sign election ballots. Last week more than a dozen Met agents claimed that it was general practice for them to sign the ballot themselves "in a more or less kidding spirit...
...Wild Goose Chase, an imaginative first novel which perhaps deserved more readers than it got, Rex Warner wrote a modern allegory combining athletic prose, adventurous satire, thriller action. Less allegorical and more exciting, The Professor comes nearest to an English It Can't Happen Here, skids nearer plausibility than Sinclair Lewis' political goose-bumper...
...they only garnered three matches from the Exeter team, the Freshman grapplers went down to defeat. 19-13, Saturday afternoon. Vern Miller, 250-pound Yardling was the standout as he pinned his opponent to the mat in less than four minutes. The other Harvard winners were Tine, pinning his man, and Thomas, who won on a decision...