Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lujack. As a spectacle it was dull: two superdefenses canceling each other out. The question of which was the nation's top team was not decided, only put off. It remained to be seen whether either team, having given its all, might now drop a game to a lesser opponent and thus give fans a chance to crown a champ by defaultl
...Allegretti does a fine job in the lead role, performing it with the mixture of pathos and humor without which there would have been no play. Robert Lubehansky is perfect as his surfaced Alter Ego, as are several others in lesser roles. Among the females, both Kaye Horan of fig leaf fame and Jane Bergwall are interesting, although Miss Horan would probably be more effective if she did not attempt quite so obviously to add to her natural bodily gifts...
...until 1946 the questions of entrance into the UN and its allied organizations, and the British lean were essentially political, involving little divergence from accepted American over the counter relationships with the world. But the issued within the next two years will be tariffs, reciprocal trade agreements and lesser foreign loans. A continuation of the Roosevelt-Hull line would force Republicans to break with their past. On these little publicized subdivisions of policy, the country has less assurance of Republican views than on their UN stand. It must be remembered that Senator Taft, the new Majority leader, opposed U.S. acceptance...
...history, coaches, college fathers and alumni are keeping cars tuned to the future of dear old Siwash, its pigskin stalwarts and the stadium mortgage. As is invariably the case with many Universities that over-emphasize the fall sport, most everyone has a finger in the glorious November bonanza; the lesser sports survive because 50,000 partisans watch the classic tussle with Toothpaste Tech and pay well for the privilege; fresh-water deans rarely overlook the essential value of such a "well-rounded athletic program." Everyone waves the banner except the stalwarts themselves, who are too busy nudging Minnesota tackles...
...city. ... Its physical center is the village green, or Boston Common. It has a bandstand, Symphony Hall; a library, the Athenaeum." Morton could not resist a jab at its press: "Its newspapers are dailies instead of weeklies, but in other respects they are reasonably to be compared with the lesser journals of Berkshire County, rural Indiana, and Long Island...