Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calhoun points out that, without exception, his fellow pony-pushers have had previous experience on the polo fields. Besides his own Manila participation, which was shared in a lesser degree by his younger brother Tom, team members have played in the Argentine and on squads in New York, Cleveland, and Arizona...
...purpose of this terror is simply to corrupt Berlin's brain and conscience, to destroy the value Berliners put on their lives, their homes, and their city. Terror has allies. Lesser and more ordinary suffering has corroded untold values. In countless brains and consciences, all political debate is held worthless. A typical newspaper cartoon this past winter showed a child pointing to a pile of cut timber: "Is that wood for our fireplaces, Daddy?" "No, son, it is for conference tables...
...would take a great deal more than the courage of hungry Berliners to keep Berlin's price too steep for Soviet pockets. It would take the steadiness and quiet resolution of the American military commander (to date, exemplary). It would take the effort of countless lesser officials who, despite the vagaries of American policy, continue their little-publicized work of rebuilding Berlin trade unions, newspapers, subways. It would take, also, the resolution of thousands of American men & women who, despite their suburban comfort, belong to this same Berlin which is ringed by enough Soviet tanks and planes, thinly veiled...
...first Quadrennial General Conference the Methodists had held in Boston for 96 years. On hand were 60-odd bishops and 7,000 lesser clergymen and laymen from some 50 countries. They represented 21 million Christians who call themselves Methodists...
...Fiftieth Anniversary Concert Sunday evening in Sanders Theater, the Chamber Orchestra will continue the policy of presenting lesser known older works, when it performs the Bach Triple Concerto in A-Minor for flute, violin, and piano, and Mozart's Divertimento in D. There is no record of performance for either of these compositions. Also sched- uled on the program are the Handel Oboe Concerto in B Flat and the first performance of Van Slyck's Sonatine for Clarinet and Strings. The orchestra will be under the direction of Van Slyck and the soloists include: Uni Springing, violin; flutist, Lois Schaefer...