Word: less
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other readers of a less dour turn of mind thought that the campaign was a first-rate contribution and should be continued indefinitely. They even suggested subjects for future series of advertisements (e.g., recreation: to show how advertising has helped the mass production of movies, sporting goods, etc.). Still another wrote as follows: "Your series is well directed toward making economic points, but does not do the job it should in highlighting the peculiarly democratic political contribution of advertising. You could have shown that but for advertisers there would be no free press . . . On this score it would have been...
...also proved to be a thoughtful, articulate spokesman for Iran's modernization plans and its need for economic and military help from the U.S. He took great pains to explain that he was not "an Oriental potentate, but a modern, liberal, constitutional monarch whose powers . . . are somewhat less than those [of] the King of Sweden...
...director Charles L. Grace, is "helping to keep the University's material in one piece." Grace reported that his staff frequently supplies outsiders with photostats of a few pages of rare books so the library need not send away whole volumes. In this way, Grace said, the University runs less a risk of losing its valuable possessions...
Although many indicated shortcomings in their college educations, less than one percent said the college training they received was totally worthless...
Distinctly less effective were the lecturing efforts of the Maestro, Singh. His anxiety to establish a theme of cultural relatively led to such interlocutory shockers as "you folks shouldn't be surprised at Indians' wearing pajamas in the daytime when you wear them in the nighttime," and that "through understanding comes mutual admiration," or maybe vice verse. Mr. Singh reversed himself on this proposition by getting tangled up in the converse a few times, but he is obviously for the United Nations and meant well. He did bring out, however, that there are over 6,000 hand gestures...