Word: less
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attaining its record of six games won to three lost, the Crimson scored 177 points compared with the opposition total of 101 points. Although the Harvard squad made more first downs and rushing yardage than the teams it played, it tallied less passing yardage (and number of completed passes) than its opponents. The Crimson had nine of its passes intercepted and lost 10 fumbles this season, compared with an opposition total of 10 lost passes and 18 fumbles lost...
...promise of cultural exchange will, clearly, never really be fulfilled in the limited programs of the present agreement, but the hope must be that they are a first step. Only about fifty people have been exchanged in youth groups, and the closely supervised Soviet tourists have numbered less than five hundred. Groups of this size have little chance of making a serious impression on either nation...
...week later, Gene did decide to attend lectures for two days at least. Each of his professors made a special point of greeting him and saying (in more or less the same words) "Congratulations. Now you will begin to learn again." They sounded to Gene like television announcers, but he decided that it would be fun, occasionally, to go to classes. He particularly liked to pretend that the students were dominoes when, in unison, their heads and hands toppled down to inscribe the lecturer's latest truth...
...late Edwin Booz, a Reading (Pa.) ironmonger's son who studied economics and applied psychology at Northwestern University while serving as an Evanston night cop. At the time, efficiency experts were entranced with time-motion studies on how to do such things as lay more bricks in less time. Edwin Booz's instinct was to concentrate on the big questions involving basic company strategy, new products, sales ideas. His first big break came in 1925, when Sewell Avery hired his firm, then in a one-room back office, to help streamline U.S. Gypsum. This led to a larger...
...throbbing poems, the boomlay-booming Congo and General William Booth Enters into Heaven. Yet 15 years earlier, few had doubted that he was a genius. Author Eleanor Ruggles (Prince of Players: Edwin Booth) avoids outright judgment, but the sum of her sympathetic, somewhat sentimental biography seems correct: Lindsay was less than a major poet, but considerably more than a quaint Illinois versifier...