Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than thirty colleges in the United States beast the "flaming crimson" as their college colors, according to latest spectral statistics compiled by the 1939 World Almanac...
Just when the Post Office was congratulating itself on having thus got some of its air mail subsidy bait back, news came from London that in June Imperial Airways expects to start flying mail over the Atlantic to Canada for 12? a half-ounce. This would be less than half the rate the U. S. had figured on if and when some U. S. airline decides to start flying the Atlantic. Only way to meet such a British rate would be to pay carriers the difference in outright subsidy, such as Imperial now enjoys...
...lice are dissected. About 150 intestines are placed in a sterilized mortar with a few drops of glycerin and carbolic acid (to assure sterility), and Dr. Weigl pounds the mess with a sterilized pestle. Result: one dose of immunizing typhus vaccine. At this rate, said Marianne, Professor Weigl makes less than one hundred life-saving doses a year...
...Sunday Times), went insane at her husband's funeral. Romantic Siegfried was alienated from his mechanically-minded brothers and schoolmates by his taste for poetry. At Marlborough he was bored. (His final report read: "No particular intelligence.") Cambridge, which he left in his second year, was even less congenial...
...undoubtedly in recognition of the prime importance of prose composition, as well as the deplorable deficiency of the average student in its mastery, that the Faculty Council has bestowed new dignity upon much-maligned English A. Hitherto the course has been a fifth leg, an extra burden which less fortunate Freshmen were forced to bear like a vestigial organ. Now, decrees the Council, it shall count toward a degree, More important than this, its exemption requirements have been raised, so that a considerable increase in the percentage of first year men taking the course is to be expected...