Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...m.p.h. Test Pilot John Cable then apparently cut one motor to try a climb on half power. Instead of climbing the ship went into a spin. John Cable bailed out at 500 feet, pulled the ripcord of his parachute too late, died on the ground. In a parking lot less than 50 feet from his body, the bomber demolished nine automobiles before it stopped...
...Bolles was quite chagrined when he read in the Boston Herald that Lauren C. Kingman, Jr., of West Concord, Harvard senior and member of last year's junior varsity crew, broke the Harvard ice cream record, downing no less than 27 dishes of peppermint stick ice cream smothered in chocolate sauce. At the Adams House dining hall, however, Mrs. Anne Jarrett, house hostess, denied the feat...
...reaction of the spectators indicates that we are all still more or less barbarians and cannibals. Some onlookers are genuinely dumfounded at the mass mayhem they are seeing, but the majority enjoy themselves mightily, exhorting the contestants to "chop that goalie into little pieces," "rip off his leg if he tries that again," "give him a good one right between the eyes...
...Times issued a statement declaring its utter confidence in its man, revealing that it had sent a representative to Mexico not long ago to check on his authenticity. Kluckhohn was assigned to cover Mexico from Brownsville, Texas. Other sectors of the U. S. press were less temperate. The Hearstian New York Mirror shrilled: "Presidents Roosevelt and Cárdenas ought to realize that a lot of Americans are saying: 'Why not just go down there and take over Mexico? . . . The Mexicans themselves would be better off.' " In Mexico City the conservative Ultimas Noticias declaimed: "Kluckhohn sees everything...
...false position that inwardly innocent people learn to be disingenuous. . . . The system of our affections is too corrupt for them. They are bound to blunder, then to be told they cheat. In love, the sweetness and violence they have to offer involves a thousand betrayals for the less innocent. . . . The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet-when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round...