Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale? While the favored colleges grumbled over indigestion, lesser schools complained of malnutrition. The Association of American Colleges estimated that smaller colleges could absorb an extra 250,000 students. So far, 41% of all back-to-school G.I.s had packed into 38 schools, largely ignoring 712 other fully accredited colleges. In some cases the G.I. was only guilty of trying for the best-why go to Podunk College, when the Government will send you to Yale? But others had a better reason: they wanted training in trades or professions which small liberal arts colleges were not equipped to teach...
...matter who won the Presidency, Strong Man Juan Perón promised to remain the Strong Man of Argentina. His new Labor party piled up votes in working-class districts. It won seat after seat in Congress, even capturing all lesser offices in San Luis province which Tamborini had carried. If Tamborini by some miracle beat Perón, he would probably be confronted with a hostile Congress and unfriendly provincial governments...
...pottery, etc. Japan's initial exports will be largely from stocks accumulated during the war-80,000 bales of raw silk, 75,000,000 yards of mixed fabric, 1,500 tons of tea, nearly 1,000,000 grams of cultured pearls. Small amounts of silk, tea and such lesser items as agar-agar (a gelatinous substance extracted from seaweed) may reach the U.S. this year. But most Japanese goods now available for export are suitable only for nearby Asiatic and Pacific markets. In these markets, they will be exchanged for urgently needed food...
...Lesser Poles explained that Russia's understanding with the Polish Provisional Government featured a two-way stretch. Said one, with a laugh as hollow as proud Poland's claim of independence, "When Vishinsky wants to back up, he lets our man go forward...
...delegates of 51 nations gathered last week for the first UNO General Assembly. They met on a great battlefield of the war-London. That battle, as much as Stalingrad or Midway, had been a turning point in the war. Though the delegates inevitably brought lesser interests along, they gathered also with a sense of dedication. Around the globe, the living shared...