Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following the lesser advance wave of soda fountain mark-ups, students are betraying through conversation and letters an uneasiness over rumors of increased University board rates and even tuition fees. No decisions have yet been announced by the Administration...
...example of the Parkian unorthodoxy that may be expected to continue coming from his typewriter. Writing on the Apostles' Creed, he claims it is a present day anachronism composed expressly to combat the medieval Gnostic heresy that the world was not created by God, but by a lesser, coarser deity, and that Christ, the Incarnate Word, did not truly live, suffer and die like a man, but only seemed to do so. He calls it a "Bill of Spiritual Rights, claiming for man the privilege of . . . establishing firsthand acquaintance with Deity in the person of an intimate, ever present...
...thriller which enjoyed a successful tour some four years ago and subsequently emerged as a Hollywood epic ("Gaslight") in 1944. If Francis Lederer's performance in the "name" role falls short of the standard set by Vincent Price in the original production, there is a compensating performance by a lesser-known member of the cast to preserve something of the essence of Hamilton's work...
Like many a man with lesser burdens, Harry Truman needed to get away from it all. Physically, he was taking the strain well-his personal physician, Lieut. Colonel Wallace H. Graham, said: "At 62, the President has the body of a man of 40 and the reactions of a man 20 years younger." In 14 months, he had gained ten pounds, a deep tan and the resiliency of second youth. But mentally he needed a rest, and he wanted it without "traveling like a circus...
...vintage 1900) skirts; an opera rustled up by California technicians from odd bits of orchestral music by Lizst and Mendelssohn and sung patently in English; Peter Lawford as a timid male debutant who calls a girl "darling" because it turns out she can speak Greek; and many others of lesser note...