Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wire to the CRIMSON Disney said, "Robin Feild is held in high esteem by our staff of over 300 practical artists. I don't know of a better recommendation, and can only say Harvard's less will be someone's gain...
...term "snap" has been used rather too loosely by undergraduate authorities to designate any course which requires less energy output than the average. In a more precise terminology, there is a very small and exclusive category of "snaps," which can fulfill the wildest dreams of the party-monger and the crew man. These courses can usually be detected by a survey of enrollment statistics. Thus, when six hundred percent more students suddenly find their souls stirred by the esoteric beauties of Chinese literature, there is cause for more than conjecture. And likewise there is when, within a few years...
...coach also has some very definite ideas on how to make the games next spring more interesting for the spectator. In the first place, the games will be speeded up with less delay by catchers hitching and unhitching their pads; there will be shorter warm-ups by pitchers; and less stalling by umpires. He repeated, "it's going to be a hustling team...
Curious modern improvements await swimmers when they come in from the Park's 1,000-foot strand: automatic showers set off by photoelectric eyes; towel-less drying in warm air currents. A more immediate pleasure on opening day was afforded by about 5,000 square feet of interior murals done by WPA artists under the direction of many-minded Hilaire Hiler (pronounced Hillair Hyler), one of the wonder boys of modern decoration. A onetime saxophone player who drifted from the University of Pennsylvania to Berlin, from Berlin to Paris, Hiler fell to painting...
...sterling in the world's markets. This left the Bank of England in the weakest position in seven years, with gold holdings of ?223,000,000. At the old parity price of 85s. per ounce, these holdings are valued by the Bank at only ?126,400,000-less than the Bank's 1931 gold holdings when England was forced off the gold standard...