Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavily attacked" it, believed they sank it. Rescue ships, including a U. S. freighter and a Dutch vessel, picked up perhaps half of the Courageous' company who were found singing and cheering in the water. The Admiralty took wry satisfaction from the fact that the carrier had aboard less than her full complement of 48 planes...
Allied losses in the war's second week were ten ships, 66,868 tons. This was about 23,000 tons less than the first week's losses (despite the Courageous catastrophe) and brought the total to 25 ships, 156,709 tons. Total German losses: four ships, 14,764 tons...
...cloud that blended with wharves and water. The lower part of the ship had all but disappeared under a coat of grey paint. Day or two later the white superstructure almost disappeared too. The Queen Mary was not slapping on war paint (battleship grey is several tones bluer and less muddy) but was introducing the latest style in camouflage, a solid, sooty, flat grey...
...Butler's autobiography betrays no false modesty. It begins with an apologia in which he claims to have been on more or less intimate terms with "almost every man of light and leading who has lived in the world during the past half-century," including British statesmen from Gladstone to Neville Chamberlain, 13 U. S. Presidents. Dr. Butler goes on to make a clean breast of his career as educator, publicist, kingmaker, counsellor to politicians...
...Child of Our Time tells a no less timely story. Central character is a young Nazi lance-corporal, for whom the Nazi slogan, "The individual doesn't count," is not merely a slogan but a true observation based on his pre-Hitler, threadbare misery. "With love, a man may reach heaven," he quotes. "With hatred," he adds, "we shall go farther...