Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Somewhere in the back of his greying head, the President kept his plans for making the momentously planned Wage and Hour Division into an efficient U. S. agency. First on his docket was the shift of Administrator Elmer Andrews to a less harassing post; second probability was his replacement by a New Deal trouble-shooter with an honest passion for anonymity: Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, Army engineer, onetime West Point athletics chief. Lieutenant-Colonel Fleming, slight, bronzed, amiable, who works with the ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer...
...have believed that 1938-39 would see the movies' greatest success-not a musical with an all-star cast, but an animated cartoon based on a German fairy tale, Snow White, in which dwarfs, gentle beasts, magic, and witchcraft were combined for the pleasure of children. Still less could they have visualized Pinocchio (see cut, p. 33) which promised to be more successful. No prophet of 1929, peering into the coming decade, could foresee the growth and acceptance of a native American art-the Iowa landscapes of Grant Wood, serene and sunny; the turbulent Missourians of Thomas Benton...
Lies and Laurels. The Polish victory came first on Speaker Hitler's list, accompanied by three bare-faced lies. Lie No. 1: "A state of no less than 36,000,000 inhabitants took up arms against us. Their arms were far-reaching, and their confidence in their ability to crush Germany knew no bounds." Lie No. 2: In spite of the "violations and insults which Germany and her armed forces had to put up with from these military dilettantes," the First Soldier of the Reich claimed that he "endeavored to restrict aerial warfare to objectives of so-called military...
...every nickel spent coking were put in a pig-bank by each college student, college would be a much less amusing place. --Baylor University Daily...
...where most people make their mistake is in predicting nothing but losses for the remaining games of the season. Harvard was unimpressive, but so were all its Ivy League rivals. It hardly seems feasible to discount so heavily Dick Harlow's Sophomore array, when the more or less veteran elevens of future opponents fared equally poorly Saturday...