Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the 32 U.S. Presidents-with the exception of William Henry Harrison and Garfield (both of whom died shortly after taking office) and Harry S. Truman (whose term is incomplete)-were listed in lesser categories...
...nation's big concrete stadiums, the news at the mid-season mark was that the top football teams seemed unbeatable. Perhaps it was the unlimited-substitutions rule that favored the big teams. Lesser teams might talk about how they held back the giant for a quarter or two, as many of them did, but by the final gun the team with superior reserves of talented specialists (either offensive or defensive) won. In the Midwest, there seemed no end to the invincibility of Notre Dame and Michigan, both unbeaten since 1946. Only slightly less impressive were North Carolina and Army...
...Scandinavia. Last week, however, Sweden's Defense Minister, Allan Georg Frederik Vougt, was in Oslo, Norway's fog-shrouded capital, to discuss with his Danish and Norwegian opposite numbers the beginnings of military collaboration-standardization of arms and training. The fact that the Norwegians and, to a lesser degree, the Danes, looked on Scandinavian defense as a part of Western European defense made Sweden's presence all the more significant...
...Post tried to. The copy went to the composing room, with a sentence that told how a woman ran down the street screaming "He's trying to rape me! Help!" The Post's prim proofreaders, to whom a rule was a rule, split an infinitive as the lesser of two evils, and changed...
Contemplation v. Fishing. Chariot's own work, nonetheless, is strikingly original. His new paintings were mostly religious in theme, though they transferred the Biblical settings to Mexico.* Given Chariot's Mexican materials, a lesser artist would have done something picturesque, suitable for pious tourists, but Chariot's pictures were more than halfway abstract: the figures were squared off to look like pottery dolls and the colors were arbitrarily rich and sweet...