Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic factfinder, Dr. Lubin had had some ex perience in international dealings. Before Roosevelt, he had been economic expert for the U.S. Food Administration in 1918, for the War Industries Board the next year. Now he will accompany Ambassador Pauley to Moscow, act as his associate, take the lesser rank of Minister...
...written into the proposals. But the sentiment for a heavier dependence on justice had yet to take any positive, coherent form. ¶ | Power patterns, shaping up at the conference, foreshadowed the patterns of the world organization. A 14-nation executive committee included the Big Three, France and China, lesser members tied more or less to the U.S. (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), Russia (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), and Britain (Australia, Canada. New Zealand). Everyone saw that on the rock-bottom security issues of the future, virtually every small power would be tied to one of the Big Three. But on minor and intermediate issues...
...conference can chart the millennium. Please do not expect it of us. ... But I have faith that we may perfect this charter of peace and justice so that reasonable men of good will shall find in it so much good and so much emancipation for human hopes that all lesser doubts and disagreements may be resolved in its favor...
...particularly the U.S.-can join it without sacrificing any important freedom of action or jeopardizing such security as it may create for itself. A second merit of Dumbarton Oaks is that it sets up machinery of continuous international consultation. The third merit is that the Assembly and (to a lesser extent) the world court are provided with great opportunities, though little power. Through the cumulative force of wise recommendations and the backing of public opinion, the organization and its agencies may gradually influence national policies and, over a long period, lay the groundwork for a genuine world community...
...hemorrhage was a big one and Mr. Roosevelt was killed outright. A lesser but still serious break may leave its victim with one side of his body paralyzed, to be helpless for months...