Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon Angus MacQuade, the man who in Scotland helped him buy Mr. Bones, his agreeable companion. He is pursued by his self-appointed fiancee, who has completely abandoned the feminine pretense. She in turn is pursued by a Yale man, along the lines of the adage, "Little bugs have lesser bugs--", but he is neatly disposed of in the end by being married to Angus's daughter, a Smith majorer in poultry farming...
While an opportunity for warm water fishing should not be overlooked by any Museum, it should not be taken for granted that man-eating sharks can thus lightly be ignored in favor of lesser finny denizens, or molluscs and foraminifera. The Museum has evidently seen the light, but not enough of it. Man-eaters are inclined to sneer at trawls and nets. Furthermore, they are likely to burst out in new viciousness at being over-long neglected. Various persons will then have to pay tribute with their arms and legs for shark spite...
...Curley opposition. Soliciting the anti-Curley vote this time was an ambitious aggregation which by last week had sifted down to Maurice J. Tobin (a member of the Boston School Committee), onetime (1926-29) Republican Mayor Malcolm Ex Nichols and Democratic District Attorney William J. Foley, besides two lesser candidates, one of whom withdrew his name too late to get it off the ballot...
...costly neutrality, which is dragging her into demoralization and depression. According to the Christmas sermon of a sententious ex-senator, the nation is to be seen in minature in the family, particularly in the Garrison family, consisting of the aforesaid two brothers and sister-in-law, and several lesser figures. John Garrison runs the family business, a factory producing various tools and machinery. On the income from this Robert Garrison runs his unprofitable liberal newspaper; and Sara Garrison, onetime actress and widow of Paul Garrison, World War victim, runs the old family mansion...
...important segment of the automobile industry-sales and distribution-it is only the beginning. Some 515,000 people are engaged in making automobiles and parts, probably twice that many selling and servicing them. After this week, when carmakers have finished holding their show in Manhattan, car-sellers will hold lesser shows of their own in 44 other U. S. cities...