Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lesser Worries. The Brookhaven conferees heard some schemes for safe shipment (to researchers and doctors) of radioactive material. Examples: make shipping boxes too big to be carried in a pocket (too close to the body); put horns on boxes to prevent their being cradled against the stomach (a vulnerable spot...
...From Dasuya in Hoshiarpur district came a mass of 114,000 Moslems, which branched into lesser columns and slowly diminished in the direction of Bahawalpur State...
More Broadsides. Encouraged by the big turnouts, Candidate Dilworth widened his attack. He accused Sheriff Austin Meehan, one of the most powerful of Philadelphia Republicans, of keeping ex-convicts on his staff. He also laid into many a lesser Republican, including a magistrate, charging them with protecting bookmakers and speakeasies...
Hearst papers from Los Angeles to New York dutifully front-paged the "Chief's" letter, dutifully began to crank out "news" stories to comply. In Los Angeles, the Examiner sent reporters scurrying after statements from the mayor, lesser city officials and ward politicians (top frontpage headline: UNIVERSAL TRAINING ACTION DEMANDED BY L.A. LEADERS...
Victor commendably began to provide Rubinstein performances of Chopin, but, so far, the emphasis has been on multi-volume sets of lesser works, (mazurkas and nocturnes), while the great ballades and etudes, for example, have been left in the cold. Columbia, meanwhile, surrendered most of what little Chopin it decided to record to the mercy of Mr. Kilenyi. The massacre of the etudes is typical of the result. Not that there aren't any good interpreters of Chopin. What few records were made by the late greats Friedman and Rosenthal have not been reissued; Brailowsky has made few records...