Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loss of $4,297,000 the first nine months. Montgomery Ward executives, who almost always have a Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog on their desks, grinned at December sales figures: Montgomery Ward down 3.8% from last year, Sears, Roebuck down 17.2%. But while 1932 ended with Montgomery Ward showing a smaller drop in sales for the year than its big competitor, 17.9% against 19.3%, it also ended with Sears, Roebuck's sales of $280,000,000, a round one hundred million ahead of Montgomery Ward's. President Avery is rehabilitating and reorganizing, but General Robert E. Wood, the president...
Among the smaller items are notices of new committees at the House, news of the Library, and a list of the House dinners. Although this first edition is necessarily brief, it is hoped later to put out an enlarged paper with more general news of the University and alumni...
This new sheet is comparable to the Harvard Alumni Bulletin on a smaller scale, and is to appear twice yearly. The present edition contains an explanation of the new inter-House eating system, a story on the Society of Fellows, and details of the reduction in room rents, effective next year...
...Human evolution is largely a matter of brain expansion and jaw reduction. It has reached a stage now where we have bigger and possibly better brains than we can use, and smaller and worse jaws than the health of the individual and the preservation of the species demand. Eskimos are almost the only human race in whom dental degeneration is not manifest...
Mainichi, Nichi-Nichi and their Asahi (Morning Sun) rivals are smaller than Metropolitan U. S. dailies, contain less advertising. Otherwise, due largely to Publisher Motoyama's pioneering, there is little essential difference. Even Mutt & Jeff, Min & Andy Gump, Smitty, Jiggs & Maggie hurl pots and tongue-lash each other in Japanese. One printing handicap the Japanese have been unable to overcome-lack of a simplified alphabet. Ideographs necessitate much handwork. A picturesque oldtime method of news transportation still lives in Japan. Newshawks and photographers in the field often send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions...