Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main topic will be "Germany and Russia: a Duel for Central Europe," and will include lesser matters such as to what extent should nationalism exist after the war, what does Russia want, should there be self-determination for the people conquered by the Axis, and independence vs. minority rights...
...yeoman, 3rd class, her husband a seaman. Last week in San Diego WAVE Hall announced she had been given an honorable discharge "because one of my superior officers became worried" over a new kind of social anomaly: marriage between two sailors. (Navy regulations exclude women whose husbands hold lesser rank.) Ex-WAVE Hall told her story to a WAAC recruiting office, was promptly enlisted...
...program made a hit. "Well," mused the Networkers, "all we've got to do is let them listen to some women's voices, and they'll be happy." And so one of the station's lesser members went and fetched six girls from Simmons. "Do anything you want," he told them. "All we want you for is your voices...
...lesser characters, rehearsing for this one performance for weeks, put on a good show. Veteran Harold McSpaden's winning total of 272 (67-70-69-66) was only three strokes higher than Byron Nelson's winning score over the same course last year. Runner-up was Johnny Revolta with...
...board. Planes and destroyers, working in teams, blast open beachheads after fleet actions; troops land and fight through screens of delaying actions that gradually become major land battles. And a player who has lost a battle because he has inadequate reinforcements, or who was brilliantly outmaneuvered by a lesser force, is likely to regard the next day's headlines with considerably more sympathetic understanding...