Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abolished General Henri Giraud's post of Commander in Chief and gave him the lesser job of Inspector General of French Armed Forces...
...anticipated fall of Odessa might seem the more important, but actually it was by far the lesser of the two events. Odessa was but a sand castle which the rising tide appeared certain to engulf. How the breakers will strike the mountain wall became a far more pertinent question...
...offering Daily News readers a pleasant column of unspectacular introspection called All Things Considered. The morning he said good-by to Donel, Columnist O'Brien caught the public where its heart is. His "So Long, Son" column stuck. Readers' Digest reprinted it. So did a score of lesser magazines, newspapers, house organs. Throughout the U.S., the farewell to Donel was read aloud to women's clubs, schools, Rotary luncheons, radio listeners. Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston and the Treasury Hour scattered it over the networks. With frankly sentimental fingers, Father O'Brien had twanged a universal string...
...were the survivors among 15,000 high-school seniors who had entered a grueling competition of scientific aptitude tests, essays, school work and interviews.* They were competing for two top scholarships of $2,400 each and a number of lesser ones offered by Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., a partner in the project. The tests are so tough that the 300 who get honorable mention each year are automatically assured college scholarships. College offers have ranged up to $10,000 to a prizewinner. At last week's end, the judges, headed by famed Harvard Astronomer Harlow Shapley, picked...
...Mother," the cloud-shrouded tallest of Rabaul's volcanic peaks, and the lesser "Daughters" on either side, brooded somberly. Australian officials recalled the report which was made by vulcanologists more than three years ago after an inspection of Rabaul's treacherous strata: another eruption was likely to occur at any moment...