Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This area is about the size of Michigan, has a comfortable climate, yet has a population of less than 100,000. It is generally considered an arid country, yet our own government reports at least 5,000,000 acres of excellent farming land, with more available after suitable irrigation. There is excellent commercial fishing and some mining there also...
This is Herr Ickes! The German press recently called Britain's venerable Earl Baldwin a "guttersnipe" for expressing far less fiery sentiments. It met the Ickes salute with a fantastic bombardment...
...keeping with Colonel Ayres' optimism, the stockmarket last week stirred out of its doldrums and staged a strong, though brief, rally. Other indices, like public spending shown by weekly bank debits, were less cheery. On the other hand, building-most bullish factor in the industrial equation-continued onward & upward. F. W. Dodge Corp. announced that November building contracts awarded in the familiar "37 States east of the Rockies" were up 52% over November 1937, bringing the eleven-month total to $2,807,489,000, highest since...
...book is less a collection of poems than a clinical exhibition. Its stated purpose is to make not words, but Merrill Moore, make sense. Accordingly, though the book occasionally and happily deviates from its stated purpose, most readers will count Merrill Moore neither poet, poetaster nor poeticule, but a scientist drunk with words...
Bearing a name less romantic but doing a work just as effective as that of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the British Committee for the Care of Children from Germany last week continued its effort to get 75,000 Jewish children under 17 out of Nazi clutches. The committee found temporary shelter for 500 waifs in a holiday camp, will teach them English and try to find them (and others yet to come) permanent homes...