Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partnership had been artistically. In 1900 he got a best seller, George Ade's More Fables in Slang. Next year he got another in George Barr McCutcheon's Graustark. Year following came the sensational Story of Mary MacLane. Then Publisher Stone decided to cut corners, pay less attention to experimental writers, add cheap reprints, and he published a magazine called The House Beautiful. (The Chap-Book had folded in the Spanish-American War.) Four years later with "nothing of importance coming out," Publisher Stone sold his tottering business to a now-extinct Manhattan publisher...
...travel as a "virus," as "a form of poetry whose raw material is life," as "an instinct second only to that of the passion of love. . . . Cities are more docile mistresses than women. Like women, they require time and money; but of the two they are by far the less demanding and more generous...
...Crimson obtained five falls in winning the Varsity meet as Captain Bill Daughaday, Ted Schoenberg. Diek Thomas, Pole Himan, and Tudor Gardiner pinned their opponents. Thomas, Sophomore scissors artist, threw his opponent, Drennan, in less than a minute and a half...
Harvard rated highest with the freshman class as 58 out of 96 first-year women polled, or 61.4 per cent, supported the Crimson. Only class in which less than half of the women voted for their intellectual rivals was the class of '40. 42 of whom out of 87 gave their vote to Harvard...
...from the motion pictures and lectures the Bookshop has sponsored. This is the source of Mr. Sullivan's "Soviet gold." He says we pay too high rent. This is also true, and as a result the Bookshop is going to move at the end of the month to a less expensive location...