Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naval Ministry scoffed at suggestions that the loss of the Phenix was something more than an accident. French newspapers were not prepared to dismiss the possibility of sabotage so lightly, asked: "Can this be the law of averages-that three democracies lose three submarines in less than a month?" Editorialized the Communist newspaper L'Humanite: "This commands suspicion...
Chinese terrain like so many drops of ink spilled on a tremendous blotter, Japan was far less able either to harass Russia or to challenge Britain and France in southeastern Asia. The great two-year-old undeclared war has thus acted as a wet blanket on the smoldering fires of the European continent...
...Times'?, Harold Denny, "any theory that implies hereditary superiority is anathema." Yet no Soviet anathema has fallen on Darwinism, whose theories (of natural selection and survival of the fittest) are premised on hereditary superiority. The basic researches of Mendel and Morgan, which the students explicitly to-helled, have less to do with superiority than with the actual mechanisms of heredity...
Corning officials figured that it would take two more years to manufacture and market the new glass in quantity. Then, they predict, it will be used in industry and in households wherever heat-resistant glass is needed. Expansion of the new glass under heat is imperceptible - three times less than the expansion of the great 200-inch telescope mirror which Corning cast for Caltech. When the next big piece of astronomical glass is made, preshrunk glass will probably be used...
...Detroit Museum's grey, spare, spry Director Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner. Twice as big as the Old Masters exhibition at the San Francisco Exposition (TIME, March 6), it covered every major school of European art up to the French Revolution. It was remarkable also in that no less than 88 works were being shown publicly for the first time in the U. S. Lent by great foreign museums or private and inaccessible collections, these could not have been seen otherwise by nine-tenths of the visitors...