Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy chain-net ten foot above the floor, similar chain-net as used by battleships as a protection from submarine torpedoes. When the leaves were put down, nothing would be in sight, all mechanism being underground. When vessels were sent through the Canal, the leaves could be raised in less than five minutes. Mechanical operation could be electrical with remote control. In fact, the leaves of the bascule-type bridge could be so camouflaged and with an imitation lock close by that I doubt very much whether the real lock could be located from the air. I suggested this...
...same period as the Madonna with the Cat, done in Leonardo's late twenties. The drawings for the Madonna with the Cat "show, as nothing else in his work, a direct and happy approach to life " As Leonardo's intellectual wrestle with painting went on even his drawings became less spontaneous and his paintings took on a cold quality of mystery...
Last week on a platform perched in the masonry of Manhattan's Riverside Church tower, 16 well-muscled men and one well-muscled woman shivered in a northwest gale and listened. They did not have to prick up their ears. The din was deafening enough to split eardrums less inured. Around them boomed the 72 bells of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon, loudest and biggest in the U. S. The biggest of these bells weighed as much as a good-sized army tank, the loudest of them could be heard in the neighboring State of New Jersey...
Controls. For these reasons the Roosevelt Administration was less worried about market collapse than market runaways. But to deal with either, the Government has many a potent weapon which did not exist...
...Khartoum, Churchill's valet died. Writes Marsh: "I was grateful to him [Churchill] for his confidence in my right feeling when he told me that though it might seem an odd thing to say, he knew I should understand him if he owned that he would have minded less if it had been...