Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...happened to go to Macy's quite early that Tuesday morning ... I found myself fairly shoved into the coat department by the determination of a large group of women. Their entry was so forcible that I saw several racks of coats knocked over and one of the smaller clerks was also knocked down. They immediately began to ask for the $58.75 coats at $8.94. Clerks pointed to signs explaining the mistake, but the women, particularly the group which had shoved me in, refused to accept any explanation. Their leader even went so far as to mount a chair...
John Marin was born in Rutherford, N. J. 60 years ago. His. long lank hair is still brown, makes him look like a smaller, sallower edition of the late Sir Henry Irving. He habitually wears high stiff collars, enjoys fishing. It is 22 years since Alfred Stieglitz, a distinguished photographer in his own right, first found John Marin in Paris making a precarious living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. In reaction to this intricate scratchwork he would go to the country, paint rapidly with loose splashes of color. Alfred Stieglitz had little sympathy with the Whistlerian...
Conclusions: Flying over established routes is 61% safer than a year ago; "miscellaneous" operations, 11% more dangerous; flying in general, 1.66% safer. A smaller proportion of accidents (57.14%) is blamable upon personnel* less upon motor failures (15.02%), less upon airplane failures (8.78%), more upon weather, darkness, airport & terrain...
Where the money was spent indicated where the party chiefs anticipated the hottest contests. To hold their House strength the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee sent $12,500 into Ohio, $7,000 into Missouri, $4,000 into Indiana, $4,000 into West Virginia, $3,750 into Kentucky. In smaller amounts $23,000 was divided among South Dakota, Tennessee, Nebraska, Minnesota, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Illinois, Colorado and Massachusetts. Democrat headquarters was spending heavily to win Senate seats in Oklahoma, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio. A thousand Democratic dollars had been despatched to Oregon to beat Republican Willis Chatman Hawley...
...Island. Astronomers had no choice. To see the eclipse they had to dare a difficult landing, pack themselves and their apparatus upon the inhabitable two square miles of Niuafou with the Polynesians. For baggage they carried materials for one 65-ft. and one 63-ft. camera, numerous smaller cameras, food for two months, spectroscopes, lumber, notebooks. Setting up their apparatus they tested it for a month in advance, rehearsed their parts. Rain and mist for 93 sec. at the time of the eclipse would have ruined everything...