Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bryant Jr., sire of three daughters and a son who returned to their Cleveland school last week after summering near Pontiac, Mich. Summering in Russia, Mr. Bryant has been in consultation with Soviet engineers who calculated that the new $50,000,000 city could not possibly be built in less than four years. Six bids from European concerns were made on that basis. Then said Austin's Bryant: "We can do it within 15 months." Replied the responsible Soviet official, according to despatches, "The contract is yours. You will receive a large bonus if you complete the work...
When anything extraordinary and un- accountable has happened lately on the New York Stock Exchange it has become more or less of a habit to account for it airily by saying: "That's Chicago buying." Many an offerer of this glib information when asked what he means by Chicago, answers: "Oh, Arthur Cutten and the rest?yon know." Two announcements from Chicago last fortnight illustrated in part of whom "the rest" consist. One was the announcement of a new investment corporation ? Manhattan-Dearborn Corp. The other news was sale of new stock by Chicago Investors' Corp. The directorates...
...Ford companies in Germany, Denmark, France. These foreign Ford shares had been considered almost unobtainable over here. Especially surprising were the German and Danish offerings, since 60% of German Ford is held by Ford Motors Co., Ltd., of England, and nearly all the remainder by I. G. Farbenindustrie. Less than 7% of Danish Ford shares were offered to the public in Denmark and Holland...
...week and witty, despite length, his speech of welcome. Said he: "In so far as psychologists are concerned, America was [prior to the last 50 years] like Heaven, for there was not a damned soul there." Another Cattell truism: ''The motions of the solar system since its beginning are less complicated than the play of a child for a day." A Cattell social irritant, which excited dark newspaper head lines: "The objects of the sciences are more ideal than the objects of the churches; their practices are more Christian. When in the fullness of time there is a family...
Born Criminals do not exist, said George Washington University's Fred August Moss. But many a person has tendencies which predispose him to crime, viz., epilepsy, paranoia, paresis, dementia praecox, senile dementia. Smalltown children are less apt to become criminals than children of large communities, added Columbia's Hugh Hartshorne. A friendly classroom atmosphere is one of the most powerful influences on child character. "Moving pictures do not contribute to delinquency," said Philadelphia's Phyllis Blanchard. "I have sat in motion picture theatres and marveled. . . . When the villain is caught, as is always the case under the policy of those...