Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...league teams (Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens) will spend more than $70,000 to help keep amateurs on ice, groom some of them ultimately for the big time. In a setup similar to major-league baseball, N.H.L.'s six teams own farm teams in the lesser professional and amateur leagues...
Like Yale, other colleges relied on rich or big-name alumni to put the bite on lesser grads.-In most cases, behind the alumni amateurs were professional fund-raising agencies. Northwestern University alone wanted $167 million; Columbia needed $100 million. Harvard thought it could make do with $90 million. To refurbish the Mark Hopkins log at Williams (at a cost of $2,500,000), President James Phinney Baxter III spent 24 days in one recent month chasing dollars outside Williamstown. (He felt, he said, like an "itinerant mendicant...
...available to the general public (about 60) will contain information for which U.S. industry and science have been clamoring. During the war many of the nation's best scientists, working at skull-bursting pressure, concentrated on bombmaking. While they were about it, they were forced to solve innumerable lesser problems, which led to various new techniques, machines and instruments...
...teaching of cancer research, the Medical School will receive a grant of $25,000, the Federal Security Agency announced yesterday. The money is from the funds of the National Cancer Institute of the U. S. Public Health Service. Thirty other medical and dental schols will get lesser sums, including the Boston University School of Medicine...
...weeks ago Soviet Ambassador Alexander Bogomolov gave a party to celebrate the Red Army's 30th birthday. Present: French Comrades Thorez, Jacques Duclos and lesser stooges, eccentric Raymond Marquie, a repatriation official who was recalled from Russia last December after he had denounced his own government; several flyers from the Normandie-Niemen Escadrille, which fought on the Russian front during...