Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Musk-Ox had taught about defending Canada in the North, Lieut. Colonel Patrick Douglas Baird, expedition commander, saved for Ottawa's official ears. Lesser problems, as whether it is better in the North to sleep raw in a sleeping bag or to wear pajamas, were not settled at all: the men disagreed. The men of Musk-Ox did agree that: 1) biggest problem is maintenance of fuel supplies for snowmobiles, which carry 40 gallons, eat it up at a two-miles-a-gallon clip; 2) Canada's Eskimos* "are the friendliest, most honest people I ever...
...taster, and what became of him I do not know. The busy years find us neglectful of those wise counselors who influenced our early lives." A gentle tear for the boys I left behind me. There is wit in "Solo in Tom-Toms," but the memoirs of a lesser journalist, though perhaps more lively than those of a prominent statesman, are scarcely important enough to trot out the long gray beard and the backward look...
...Lesser Sounds. Atlanta, Albuquerque and Buffalo were not the only towns where gossipy local items seemed as interesting again as more ponderous news. The nation, which had been deafened a little by the last big bang of World War II, was beginning to listen to lesser sounds. By now the U.S. had become matter-of-fact about peace: the new civilian clothes on veterans had lost that store press, the words "President Truman" no longer sounded odd, and Rosie the Riveter seemed almost as dated as the Gibson Girl...
These are the problems facing President Conant as he returns to fulltime duty. If their solution is to be part of an active liberal tradition, the President must turn to intimate and personal contact with the inner workings of the college. To allow policy to stem from intermediate and lesser sources is to give the lie to the prophecy that the next years will be the years of "Conant's Harvard," much as the College of the beginning of the century was "Eliot's Harvard," and "the Great Harvard." It is not a matter of imposing the will...
...shattering impact of the atomic bomb on the political sensitivities of the world was accompanied by lesser waves of awareness that the men involved with the bomb had become legislators of a tremendous share of the future. Of these, Conant, because of the newsworthiness of his Harvard office and previous achievements as a chemist, has been given the greatest attention. This play in the press and radio is well merited, for he took a vital role in the project that began in 1940 and reached a climax at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...