Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three derives his livelihood from German trade. Minister Jonkheer Edgar Michïels van Verduyen, for the Dutch, was soon followed to the British Foreign Office by Minister Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne for the Belgians. Denmark protested, Sweden protested, Norway protested-but all of them less vigorously than the two Nazi-prodded neutrals, and Sweden simultaneously complained to Germany about some sea mines laid within her three-mile limit. Italy protested too, but with a mildness explained by the fact that if Germany's exports (many of which go through Genoa and Trieste) are clamped down...
...same restaurants, seated at secluded tables, there were other, less martial women. Women dressed for peacetime, who opened their shining eyes as large as possible, so that the tears would not gush...
Socially, Indian Moslems are a solid, self-conscious minority group (just less than one-fourth of India's population) ; Hindus are a loosely-bound, sect-split, caste-stratified majority (three-fourths...
...English North Country songs, the phlegmatic Lancashire monologues that have made Gracie Fields Britain's top entertainer. From Pat many U. S. radio listeners have learned for the first time of stubborn old Sam Small, who held up the Battle of Waterloo until the Duke of Wellington, no less, soft-soaped him into picking up his musket. They know, too. of young Albert Ramsbottom who got et by a lion at Blackpool zoo, moving his outraged parents to lament...
...young facultymen-Biology Teacher William ("Bill") McElroy, lately a varsity end at Stanford, and Alfred ("Fritz") Hubbard, onetime Carnegie Fellow at Princeton-offered to coach. Result was an unusually big turnout for the team: 30 (including two Japanese) of Reed's 546 students. Except on rainy days (when less than a full team showed up), they practiced about an hour and a half a day. Because of lack of time, Coaches McElroy & Hub-bard showed their pupils how to score a touchdown but not how to kick a goal afterwards. Reed's team proceeded to whip Multnomah College...