Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tares outstripping everything else in sight. For in talking about crowded calendars, dockets two and three years behind schedule, waste, expense, and inefficiency in litigation, and the consequent inaccessibility of justice to the "little fellow", Mr. Roosevelt's remarks, as they apply to district courts, and to a lesser extent to the circuit courts of appeal, are true as gospel. Yet to induce from the bad conditions prevalent in the lower courts that the top court needs remodeling is not only illogical: it is a blow to the hopes of all who are working towards a really effective judicial reform...
recuperating from sinus trouble in Florida with his fiancee Ethel du Pont; three of the lesser grandchildren. -John Adams in 1793, George Clinton in 1809 Daniel...
Congratulations on your selection of material for Jan. 4 cover of TIME! It was the lesser of two evils-Simpson over...
Headed by George S. Viereck Jr. '39, the board includes Bruce Bliven Jr. '37; Philip I. Blumberg '39; William N. Chambers '39; Albert L. Lesser '39, Cyril C. Means '38; and F. Welch Poel '39. The Business Board, whose personnel will be finally named after midyears, is headed by Jack D. Andrews...
...opium smoking, cured himself of this habit at the age of 62. Others can do likewise if they are determined!" As the Generalissimo and Premier of China, Chiang Kaishek, was not answering the telephone or reading his mail or telegrams during the week, the Christian Marshal could only browbeat lesser officials and they timidly tried to appease him with just a little death. After Feng had stormed for hours, Peiping police produced a half-frozen individual by the name of Lu Ju-hsin, saying they had caught him on a bicycle with 60 ounces of narcotics...