Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public mind. The Quantum Theory, perhaps even more important, was even less understood. People needed to know that stars were no longer points in space, but convenient physical laboratories, observed through fantastic instruments. People needed to be told that the atom had fallen apart, had dissolved into lesser particles...
...albums have been out of stock for years. The quality of twelve inch disks, while improved since the war, is still ragged, with imperfect surfaces and edges and gritty tone creeping up all too often. Needless duplication of the Tschaikowsky, Beeethoven, and Brahms symphonies wastes precious material while the lesser known but valuable works of such composers as Mozart, Purcell, and most moderns are sadly neglected. American catalogues list seven versions of Brahms's First Symphony and none of Mozart's important Seventh Clarinet Trio in E flat...
...Newcomers. Not Chou En-lai but two lesser Communists, Wang Ping-nan and Liao" Cheng-chi, publicly made the secession threat. Both came some months ago from Chungking to Nanking, where they have been relatively obscure members of the Communist delegation. Wang is solemn, homely, rather likable. He is direct, clipped in speech, and generally uses an interpreter though he understands English well. His wife is a Polish Communist, who is said to have strong influence over him. Liao also speaks excellent English, out of the corner of his mouth. The emergence of Wang and Liao, like the emergence...
...various times, his ad campaigns had the Federal Trade Commission, Better Business Bureau, American Medical Association and the New York Times on his neck. Hill squelched lesser critics handily: "Why should I justify [my copy]? It has paid...
...Rajputana. Using the rhythmic changes of the seasons and the monotonous ups-&-downs of peasant life as her shoehorn, Author Wernher deftly eases into her book not only such basic and familiar Indian matters as Hindu segregation, the exactly graded structure of the family, but also details about lesser-known rites of Hindu worship, the involved ceremonies that accompany the simplest acts of daily life. Author Wernher, raised in India, came to the U.S. in 1943, has also published a "diary" of Indian life (My Indian Family...