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Word: lesser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example can not be ignored. Universities saddled with expensive athletic plants can do well to follow Harvard's lead. It would relieve the pressure of two annoying problems, maintenance of lesser sports and charges of professionalism. The Brown Daily Herald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/30/1937 | See Source »

...Missouri apple butter's superior flavor; I herewith extend to the latter an invitation to join the newly-formed Apple Butter Devotees of America (Missouri charter). Governor Stark is to be invited to be honorary life president of the society, which organization will take precedence over all lesser groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...rulings had favored C. I. O. It was, he explained, illegal for an employer to coerce employes into joining any union, and that included A. F. of L. unions. Whenever the Labor Board discovered an employer forcing his workers into an A. F. of L. union as the lesser of two evils it was up to the Board to act, "for no Board which can read English and can understand the purpose of this law can ever hold . . . that the employer may choose the union for his employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fighting Machine | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

This Way Please (Paramount). Love comes to Usherette Betty Grable, bringing with it Buddy Rogers and his band, Mary Livingstone (Mrs. Jack Benny), Ned Sparks and some lesser lights from radioland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...safe: the danger of an untrained army's disintegration and the danger of political defeat that might be brought on by following a too adventurous leader. Not even in numbers has the A F. of L. yet become the lesser half of the House of Labor. The C. I. O. vaingloriously claims 3,700,000 members, many of whom, however, are only members insofar as they have signed an application blank. The A. F. of L. after losing 1,000,000 members to C. I. O., claims 3,600,000 members, approximately the same number it had before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Old Men Go West | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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