Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this prodigious endurance and recovery, the Russians have two factors to thank. Mainly, they can thank themselves and a national effort singly devoted to manning, equipping and re-equipping their successive armies. To a lesser but great extent, they can also thank U.S. and British aid. Published figures by no means convey the full effect of the planes, tanks, other weapons and materials delivered to the Red Army. Many, and in some sectors most, of the bombers harrying airdromes, railway junctions and supply centers are U.S. bombers, with Russian crews...
...Coordination of all Washington's rambling and often conflicting agencies, with his office as the nerve center. (One of his first directives invited all his lesser czars to dump their troubles on his desk...
Last month India's Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer declared invalid the emergency statute under which Mohandas K. Gandhi and 8,000 lesser All-India Congress leaders had been detained since last August. The Raj was unruffled. Technically the Viceroy accepted the judgment, but he refused to release edition of the newspaper Critica was suppressed for carrying an attack on Castillo and an appeal for speed in realizing hemisphere cooperation...
...vice president. Hustled into a Colorado relocation project (his parents are still there) after Pearl Harbor, he was released early this year. At Oberlin, Kenji heeled the college paper, made a hit, became student-council president. Declared the paper: "He was elected primarily on the basis of merit. ... A lesser point...
Eliot is, to be sure, not a poet in the grand antique sense of spontaneous and unprecedented song. But as a devoted artificer of words and as a distiller of experience, he has always been a poet, and a particularly fine one. Unlike many greater and lesser poets, moreover, he has constantly grown and changed. In his youth he was most notably a satirist; then a mosaic artist of exquisite sensibility, a man who used the perfected expression of past artists as frankly as he used his own, to arrange, fragment by fragment, edge by edge, an image...