Word: less
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson will put less than 20 men into uniform for the game, because it depends mainly on the endurance of its first string. Tony Davies, an imported left fullback from Ireland is the mainstay of the defense. His powerful kicking often broke up threatening situations in the M.I.T. encounter last week. Gil Leaf, the left wing, scored the single goal that gave the Crimson that game...
...vice chairman of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in Europe, came back to begin his swift rise to the top. He became the protege of President George Whitney, who had foresightedly launched a recruiting drive for the young men who later became the bank's postwar bird dogs. Less than ten years after he joined the firm, Alexander was made executive vice president. Following in Whitney's footsteps, he moved up to the presidency in 1950, when Whitney became chairman, took over the firm in 1955, when Whitney retired to head the advisory board...
...held by Bonn, 20% by Lower Saxony. To prevent majority control by a single group and to spread ownership as widely as possible, the $25 shares will be rationed five to an investor. To attract lower-income customers, initial sale will be restricted to German citizens making less than $4,000 a year...
...Mississippi's Yoknapatawpha County at precisely the moment when the old Southern aristocracy had become a pushover for vulgar, illiterate climbers. Flem's god was money, because money was power, and in the end it led even to respectability. To get money, he trampled over the less cunning, blandly jobbed the unsuspecting; he married the casually pregnant daughter of the big man in Frenchman's Bend, and with equal blandness allowed himself to be cuckolded by a banker because it helped Flem to become the bank's president. Behind him he left a trail of foreclosed...
...Greenwich Village days, for instance, have left him with what seems to be a permanent fascination with Hip-that freemasonry of the beard and the weird, whose lodge brothers Mailer tags "white Negroes" (although black Negroes also are members). Hipsters, writes Mailer admiringly, are "philosophical psychopaths," stronger, less intellectual and more vigorous sexually than Beatniks. The opposite of Hip, of course, is Square. Mailer it-provides a small glossary of opposites: crooks and sin are Hip, while cops and salvation are Square; likewise T-formation football and the New York Herald Tribune are Hip, but the single-wing formation...