Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made good. Aboard one destroyer transport, the squawk box ordered all New York men to double to the fo'c'sle to meet the New York Times's representative. He turned out to be the Times's general manager himself, Brigadier General Julius Ochs Adler. Lesser reporters, many with the names of their papers lettered on their uniforms hunted down boys from their home towns...
...Moscow radio accused the U.S. Army of showering luxuries upon Hermann Goring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Doenitz and flocks of lesser lights in its custody. Actually, they were leading a rigidly simple life...
...French poet and philosopher, successor of Anatole France to the French Academy in 1925; of a heart ailment; in Paris. His infrequent, esoteric works (La Jeune Parque, Le Cimetière Marin, Varétés I, II, III, IV) brought from his distinguished colleagues high acclaim, from lesser intellectuals charges of obscure pomposity, from himself the admission, "I am a difficult author - it is my kind of beauty...
...chief victim of former Communist policies had been the Social Democrats, once Germany's No. 1 political party. In 1932, the German Communists had declared the Nazi Party to be a "lesser evil" than the Social Democratic
Wagner: Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 2 sides)«. An authoritative job which should discourage lesser conductors from trying. Performance and recording: excellent...