Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade-union trading. A. & P. signed A. F. of L. contracts covering its Washington and Chicago stores, prepared to follow suit elsewhere. A. F. of L.'s part of the bargain: to oppose Representative Wright Patman's pending bill to tax big A. & P. and many a lesser store chain out of existence...
Anti-theory. Thesis of Christine Herter. in Defense of Art- is that much contemporary art is a product of theorizing rather than creative activity. She sees the lesser moderns as more or less buffaloed by intellectualizations which were slightly screwy in the first place, and proceeds to punch neat holes in the writings of eminent estheticians...
...amazing surgical dexterity spread his name all over the world, and lesser men seated in the operating theatre would gasp in admiration as Dr. Kelly, a scalpel in each hand, would boldly slash left & right through a patient's muscular abdominal wall. Dr. Cullen often tells the story of their first meeting, in Toronto's General Hospital in 1891. Young Tom Cullen was the intern assigned to handle the great Dr. Kelly's instruments. As Dr. Kelly grasped his scalpels Dr. Cullen turned round to thread a needle. When he looked back in a few seconds...
...Simpson-Sayre Club: William R. Fry, Upper Derby, Pennsylvania; Philip Goodheim, Gloversville, new York; Gilbert Helman, Brooklyn, New York; Leonard Lesser, New York, and John Van Brunt Jr. Flushing, New York...
Mozart: Symphony in C Major, K. 200 (Berlin College of Instrumentalists, Fritz Stein conducting: Victor: 4 sides), and Symphony in B Flat Major, K. 319 (Chamber Orchestra, Edwin Fischer conducting; Victor: 6 sides). Two lesser but important Mozart symphonies, crisply played...