Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companies argue that Ibn Saud and the lesser sheiks must be placated at all costs if America is to maintain its dominant position in the petroleum industry and they their profits. They add that any Yankeephobia among the nomads would invite Russian expansion into this American preserve...
...Harvard Committee for Wallace would like to clarify its position on the Marshall Plan. We feel that the "Marshall Plan" which has achieved a wide acceptance by honest liberals suffering from a "Lesser of two evils" psychology, ought really to be recognized to be made up of two quite different things. There is the Marshall Proposal of the Harvard speech of June, 1947; and there is the European Recovery Plan as formulated at present...
...here yet-but the plans are being laid for it. When the day comes, colleges will have to be a lot bigger, or there will have to be a lot more colleges. Last week California and New York, the two states with the biggest educational migraines, chose the lesser evil. The trick is, they agreed, to make little ones out of big ones...
...Have No Fear." In greater or lesser degree France's mild weather was reflected throughout Europe, filling many a breast with the clochard's peace of mind. And there were more tangible benefits as well. As last year's evil winds from Siberia had helped the Kremlin's cause by promoting misery and despair, so this year's Atlantic zephyrs favored European recovery. France's wheat crop promised to more than double last year's meager yield of 3.5 million tons. French hydroelectric power was more abundant than at any time since...
...lesser charges were thrown out, but the court would have no truck with the nature-over-science argument. Stiffly it found that radar was only "an additional aid to navigation." Littler's sword now pointed directly at him: "Guilty." He was removed from his command, reprimanded. Said a brother officer: "Johnny's had his chips...