Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profoundly believe that the first great step towards safeguarding this nation from being drawn into war is to use whatever influence it can, compatible with the traditional policy of our country of noninvolvement, so as to make less likely the outbreak of a major...
...Deadlocked in conference with the Senate over funds to help run the District of Columbia (payroll: 11,000 workers), with an ultimatum that the sum be not more than $5,000,000 for fiscal 1940. Virginia's Senator Glass was equally adamant on not less than $6,500,000. Washington bankers offered the District credit...
...deficit was $3,542 millions-about $1,410 millions less than the New Deal's record deficit in sorry...
...Less than ten feet from one of our party was a charming little girl in her sweet innocency, by high-life rules paired at a table with a young man with a wife and children at home. All aglow in her youthful innocent glee she unfolded plans made to pair with him at each following public function, with an added trip during the lull at New York to visit a friend of his, to take through the highways, byways, hellish beckonings at every turn, through similar routes from which thousands like her never return...
...dull parents to that of children of college professors by placing them in good homes (TIME, Nov. 7). Said Dr. Terman: "If [these claims] can be substantiated, we have here the most important scientific discovery in the last thousand years. . . " Either the educational programs provided by other investigators are less stimulating than those provided at Iowa or the Iowa effects are in some way spurious...