Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult decisions over to other people, perhaps to that mysterious body known as the Administrative Board. In view of the fact that much of a dean's effectiveness depends on the position of respect or disrespect in which the undergraduates hold him, it might be well to give the lesser officials in University Hall a little more authority in routine matters...
...mean very little. A soccer player, for instance, takes his training as seriously, is just as worked up over the thought of getting into the Yale game, and will as willingly give his last effort for the cause as any football or hockey enthusiast. In tennis, another of the lesser sports, the team competitor has even more responsibility to keep on the top of his form, since he is individually responsible for the success or failure of his own particular match. Likewise in lacrosse and many others it seems inconceivable that the players can give any more to the game...
...peace is to be, like last week's Childes lecture, only an excuse for young men to get together and discuss the enervating spring weather until they get in the mood for rioting or lesser disorders, then the setting has been well laid. The speakers are vociferous and colorful enough to inspire action; but let that action be along the lines of peace rather than labor agitation and radical fantasy...
...that these things were put in writing. The union on its part promised not to coerce employes to join, not to permit its members to take part in "any sit-down or stayin strike or other stoppage" in any Chrysler plant for the period of the agreement (one year). Lesser matters were left to further negotiation...
...Sciltan Mafia on an American water-front, it builds with almost unfailing crescendo, a sequence of extortion, intimidation and violent death. "The Blue Bird" by H. P. Coolidge places a troupe of Russian ballet dancers in an American hotel and sketches with humor and feeling the aversion of a lesser Nijinsky tragedy. The third fictional item, "I said my Penance" by Peul Clark, is a light, almost New-Yorkerish vignette of a Catholic college student setting his rather elastic conscience aright for "Easter duty...