Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipped Sixth and Fifty-second Armies broke the Manchurian stalemate. With surprising but by now familiar ease they captured Antung, Red China's only major Manchurian port, then pushed south (toward the Soviet-controlled port of Dairen) to clear lesser harbors. In what obviously was a coordinated offensive, other Nationalist armies closed in on Chefoo, across the Yellow Sea from Antung on the Shantung Peninsula. Once again U.S. equipment and training was in evidence-the Chefoo attackers splashed ashore from old Navy landing boats...
...basic philosophy of Liberalism id founded on humanitarian and to a lesser extent on economic principles. Its aim is to secure for all Americans, and eventually for all peoples, the highest possible standard of living-which is well above the one which new prevails. Furthermore, Liberalism unlike pragmatic Communism so opposed the scarifying any of our political or civil rights in order to obtain economic benefits. The fight for personal liberty was largely won in the nineteenth century; and while Liberalism is committed to the preservation of classic freedoms-freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of worship...
...numberless others who would like an improved level of existence for our nation by their belief that such a goal con be attained only buy positive action of the part of the Federal Government. Economic life has become too complex and too impersonal for attempts at improvement by lesser agencies to be effective. The precise extent of governmental control over economic activities id a matter for dispute even among Liberals, but the median of their beliefs would probably lie close to mild Socialism, encompassing supervision of essential industry, utilities, and basic resources...
...more the committees studied the power requirements, the worse the figures looked. They feared that they would need five, maybe eight, motors of 250,000 horsepower each (biggest existing motor, 87,000 h.p.). These and lesser motors might bring power needs well above two million kilowatts. NACA was nearly stumped. It might have to split up its Buck Rogers testing center. There just wasn't enough available power in any one place to run the fabulous motors...
Somewhere deep inside Lincoln there was a kind of literary genius, as surely as there was in Edgar Allan Poe or Walt Whitman. It shines strong in his great state papers; it glows steadily in his lesser efforts. It is as unmistakable as the man himself, in the letter the President wrote Jan. 26, 1863, to the Union Army's Major General Joseph Hooker...