Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government headache. Ever since then he has been employed by the unemployed. In 1921 he became head of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, which by last week had accumulated 180,000 members who pay a penny a week dues if they can afford it, and who pay Wal less than $25 a week to keep the Government in a frenzy. He has earned his pay and then some, particularly this winter when, according to last week's figure, the British unemployment total reached a three-year high...
...road on a soft shoulder. The car skidded, hurtled off an embankment, pitched out a man who was as well known to latter-day race fans as were Wishart, De Palma and Rickenbacker before the War. Two days later, as it will to 30,000 far less skillful and less famed motorists in 1939, death came to "Wild Bill" Cummings...
...most popular saints of modern times: St. Therese, St. Bernadette of Lourdes, St. Giovanni Bosco (a social service worker who had once been his friend), England's St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, North America's eight Martyrs. Yet the greatness of Pius XI derived less from his spiritual labors for the Kingdom of God than from his long, uncompromising battle against the pretensions of modern Caesars...
...years ago the circulation of all weeklies was less than a third of the dailies' 45,000,000; today dailies are down to 40,500,000 and weeklies have 40% as much...
...American Press Association Directory this month showed that newspapers in towns of less than 20,000 increased by 194 to a total of 10,179 in 1938. All but a handful are weeklies. X. W. Ayer & Son's Directory shows that dailies declined last year from...