Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organic chemist can make isoprene from such common stuffs as turpentine, petroleum, starch, coal tar or acetylene. News of goldenrod as a likely rubber source gave the casual daily press opportunity to picture farmers sneezing as they harvested the autumn-gorgeous weed. But goldenrod pollen is one of the lesser causes of hayfever. Ragweed, more widespread, is the chief cause...
Many a motion picture studio set after being used for one big picture is revamped for a lesser one. In London last week a new cinema company, World Studio Center, Ltd., announced it would use the same set not for many pictures, but for six versions of the original, each in a different language, each made by a different company. Through this cooperation of foreign producers, World Studio hopes to cut its costs 30%, successfully to fight U. S.-made films...
...debut in Manhattan. Last week seven other cities heard them?Boston, Princeton, N. J., Greencastle, Ind., St. Louis, Lake Forest, Ill., Chicago, Providence. The verdict everywhere was the same: that here are musicians possessed of immaculate technique and a fine, poetic sense of unity. Lutes if played by lesser artists drop into the plunking monotony of mandolins, but the Aguilars make music marvelous for smooth, glowing patterns...
...characters (none of which all very well developed), the author has two coldblooded respectable villains, a distinguished authoress, a pure, untainted heroine, a weak-willed mother, a detective, a hero in the form of a nephew of the authoress, and a few minor personages playing lesser parts. In the way of situations, Mr. Reeve has an equally wide variety, none of them wholly credible or real...
...present are the social activities of student life, and of these the most important, from the point of view of the public, are the athletic. Membership in the varsity football team represents the peak of undergraduate attainment, and from that the scale of values grades down through the lesser sports, through the glee and mandolin clubs, the dramatic society and the comic weekly to the bottom of scholastic excellence. Education, the nominal object of every college student, plays second fiddle in the popular estimate to the development of those attributes that make the "mixer...